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FARIA (António Machado de). O MESTRE DE CAMPO João Fernandes Vieira Herói da Restauração de Pernambuco. Lisboa. 1955. - FARIA (António Machado de) O MESTRE DE CAMPO João Fernandes Vieira Herói da Restauração de Pernambuco . Lisboa: Agência Geral do Ultramar, 1955. XXXV, 294, [2] pp. il.; 230 mm. First edition. António Machado de Faria de Pina Cabral (Campos de Goitacazes, Rio de Janeiro, 1898), genealogist and archaeologist of Portuguese descent, graduated from the Higher Institute of Economic and Financial Sciences of Lisbon, was curator of the Historical Archive of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, co-founder with José da Cunha Saraiva of the journal Arquivo Histórico de Portugal (1932) and full member of the Portuguese Academy of History, chair no. 3. He was also responsible for the heraldry department of the Grande Enciclopédia Portuguesa e Brasileira . He published, among other works, the Livro do Armeiro-mor (1956), the Linhagens do Século XVI (1956) and the Armorial Lusitano (1961). He was awarded the Augusto Botelho da Costa Veiga Prize (1973) and the Calouste Gulbenkian History Prize (1976). This biographical study is dedicated to João Fernandes Vieira (Funchal, c. 1610 - Olinda, 1681), born Francisco de Ornelas, a military man and sugar mill owner who, after an obscure youth in Pernambuco – where he worked as a wage earner and negotiated with the Dutch invaders themselves – would become the main leader of the Pernambuco Uprising (1645-1654), which culminated in the expulsion of the West India Company from Brazil and the re-establishment of Portuguese sovereignty over the captaincy. Elevated to the rank of Master of the Field of the Pernambuco Infantry Regiment, he later became governor of Maranhão and Angola. The work is illustrated with prints on extra-text sheets on coated paper. (Estimated.) ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate