Antonio de Spinola in exile: The stay in Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the life of General Antonio de Spinola during his exile, with a special focus on the period in which he lived in Brazil. The period of Spínola's biography analyzed in this article, therefore, is not the one in which he occupied the higher positions or the most important offices in his career. However, the exile in Brazil was an equally relevant period in his biography and this analysis allows us to monitor the political activity performed by the general during that period. Also it will bring some additional light to a particularly delicate period in the relations between Portugal and Brazil. In this text, we will therefore cross a biographical analysis with the concern in bringing new contributions to the history of the political activism of Portuguese opposition exiled in Brazil during the revolutionary period in Portugal and also to the history of Luso-Brazilian relations.