Zacarias d' Aça

His full name being Francisco Zacarias Araújo da Costa Aça. Journalist, contributor to several periodicals (Revista Contemporânea, Revista do Século, Panorama, Gazeta do Povo, etc.), he was also an officer at the Direcção-Geral da Instrução Pública and librarian of the Academia das Belas-Artes. He became known as an art critic. A close friend of Bulhão Pato, he dedicated a long chapter to him in his book Caçadas Portuguesas. In Lisboa Moderna, he gathered the impressions left on him by reading B. Pato's Livro do Monte and drew a very personal portrait of him under the heading of «Poeta Sportman».