MIGUEL ANTÓNIO DIAS SANTOS
Luís de Magalhães, Oliveira Martins and the "New Life".

Luís de Magalhães was a committed intellectual, who turned to politics when he became a member of the reformist movement initiated by Oliveira Martins and the "New Life" (Vida Nova). Luís de Magalhães was a friend of the historian and of some of the most remarkable intellectuals of his time, namely Antero de Quental and Eça de Queirós. His political projection occurs linked to the political culture, which this elite developed towards the end of the 19th century, and from which he stood out by reasserting the nationalist values, patriotism, messionism and the sublimation of ethics in performing politics.