Editorial data

Altitude. Boletim de literatura e artes was directed by Coriolano Ferreira, Fernando Namora, João José Cochofel, and Joaquim Namorado. The new title did not commit to publication deadlines and only two issues, dated February and April 1939, saw print.

The publication’s editorial staff and administration were established in the home of João José Cochofel, which was apparently the magazine’s alma mater, located at Rua do Loureiro, no. 9, in the heart of Coimbra, while the composition and printing took place at Tipografia Atlântida, located on adjoining Rua Ferreira Borges, nºs 103 to 111.

At the residence of João José Cochofel, which seems to be the alma mater of the magazine, located at Rua do Loureiro, no. 9, in the heart of Coimbra, it was agreed to establish the editorial staff and administration of the publication, while the composition and printing took place at Tipografia Atlântida, located on adjoining Rua Ferreira Borges, nºs 103 to 111.

Augusto Abranches dos Santos, poet and owner of the Portugália bookshop and publishing house, located a little higher, next to the Sé Velha, came on as editor, albeit in a personal capacity, as indicated on the last page of the first issue: “this magazine, announced as a Portugália/Coimbra edition, now leaves this publishing house with complete independence”. On the same occasion, we find the suggestion that publications with the Altitude stamp were intended to continue those already published by Abranches do Santos – Sedução, by Marmelo e Silva, and As Sete Partidas do Mundo, by Fernando Namora – namely through the ad for Metrópole, a book of poems by António Ramos de Almeida.

Each issue, featuring an artistic motif on the cover, careful pagination, and printing on good-quality paper, had twelve pages and was sold for one escudo and fifty centavos (the subscription for three issues cost four escudos).

Luís Andrade