In 1837 he founded the Panorama in imitation of the English Penny Magazine, and there and in Illustraco he published the historical tales which were afterwards collected into Lendas e Narrativas; in the same year he became royal librarian at the Ajuda Palace, which enabled him to continue his studies of the past.
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Herculano introduced the historical novel into Portugal in 1844 by a book written in imitation of Walter Scott.
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He supported the rural clergy and idealized the village priest in his Pároco da Aldeia, an imitation, unconscious or otherwise, of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield".
His latter years had been chiefly employed in translations of Luís de Camões' Lusiad, five books of which were completed, and of Alexandre Herculano's History of Portugal.
In Alexandre Herculano's Eurico, o Presbítero, Oppas is portrayed as a traitor to his own country, whose troops treacherously went to the conqueror's side, and a close collaborator of the conquerors Musa and Tarik.
Alexandre Dumas | Alexandre Benois | Alexandre Guilmant | Alexandre Yersin | Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis | Alexandre Pires | Alexandre Herculano | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff | Alexandre-Antonin Taché | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois | Alexandre Michon | Alexandre Lenoir | Alexandre Koyré | Alexandre Calame | Alexandre-Athenase Noghès | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny | Pierre-Alexandre Aveline | Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron | Henri-Alexandre Wallon | Alexandre Vinet | Alexandre Tharaud | Alexandre Silva Cleyton | Alexandre Pato's | Alexandre Pato | Alexandre Millerand | Alexandre Massura | Alexandre Marine | Alexandre Luigini |
Camilo met with intellectuals and people with social notability, such as the father of Eça de Queirós, José Maria d'Almeida Teixeira de Queirós, judge and pear of the kingdom, Alexandre Herculano, António Feliciano de Castilho, the Povoan playwright and poet Francisco Gomes de Amorim and his personal friend Almeida Garrett, and other notable people.