author
d. 1834
Known today for a rare political work from 1828, this Portuguese-language writer left behind a vivid firsthand defense of a turbulent moment in Portugal’s history. Even with little biographical detail surviving, the surviving book gives a clear sense of a forceful public voice.
Very little confirmed biographical information is readily available about this author beyond the catalog form of the name, Manuel Cipriano da Costa, and a death date recorded as 1834.
He is chiefly known for Quanto basta a respeito do dia 25 de abril de 1828, a Portuguese-language work preserved by Project Gutenberg. The book is a historical and political account centered on the events of April 25, 1828, when Miguel de Bragança was proclaimed king in Portugal, and it argues in defense of the legitimacy of those events.
Because so little else could be confirmed from reliable web sources during this search, it is safest to remember him as an early 19th-century Portuguese political writer whose surviving reputation rests on that one notable text.