author
António Cândido
1850–1922
Best known in Portugal as a brilliant speaker in public life, he also left behind books and speeches that capture the tone of parliamentary debate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A professor of law and theology as well as a politician, he moved easily between scholarship, rhetoric, and public service.
2 Audiobooks
Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 1 of 2)
by António Cândido
Principios e questões de philosophia politica (Vol. 2 of 2)
by António Cândido
About the author
Born in 1850 in São Faustino de Fridão, near Amarante, António Cândido Ribeiro da Costa became a prominent Portuguese professor, intellectual, and politician. He studied at the University of Coimbra, later taught there, and built a reputation as an exceptional parliamentary orator, earning the nickname "Águia do Marão".
Alongside his academic and political career, he published speeches and other writings connected to public life. For readers coming to him through older printed works, that background matters: his books are closely tied to law, politics, and the culture of debate in Portugal during a period of major change.
He died in 1922, leaving a legacy that blends scholarship, eloquence, and civic engagement. Even when approached today as a historical author rather than a public figure, he stands out for the force of his voice and for the window his work offers into Portuguese intellectual life of his era.