Apresentação

After having installed 43 biographies on our site, in the Portuguese language, VIDAS LUSÓFONAS (LIVES OF THE PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING WORLD) is now launching its English Version. To us, the Internet is not simply a ship on which we can navigate throughout the World. We also want the World to begin navigating on this particular sea whose waters touch the many shores where the Portuguese language is spoken.

We estimate that the English Version will grow at the rate of 1 or 2 biographies each month. We believe that, with this initiative, our site will be increasingly visited by the descendants of the Portuguese Diaspora, wherever they may be. And, we hope, by others as well...

It is our belief that historical precision is not limited to the prose of a notary public nor to an entry in an encyclopedia. In our thinking, we can share our lives through important figures of our common past, wherever they may have come from in the Portuguese-speaking world. Here, we intend to tell the story of an endless number of Portuguese-speaking people, regardless of nationality, who contributed significantly to a human endeavor, to a country or to an era. Each biography will observe historical accuracy mixed with a touch of imagination by transposing the action to the present - the effect is much greater when dealing with what is happening than with something that happened long ago. Everything is "now", a half-dozen pages for each figure, with the impact of the short story; conciseness is the word.

This site is not a History book. It is, rather, a gallery of portraits recreated from clues handed down to us by History. Plutarch and Tacitus were the pioneers: each life has its own story. To which we add: and everything is happening, now...