Centauro (review)
Centauro was a Portuguese monthly literary review published in the capital Lisbon from October to December 1916. The review was headed by Luís de Montalvor who also published its first volume. The first volume was published in October 1916, the second in November and the last one in December.
Decadentism
In some form, the Centauro review was republished as part of the review Orpheu, whose titled as a trimonthly literary review which had the recovering a then current decadentist, that Luís de Montalvor who headed the first issue of the review, it was printed. But the then current literary was diverted to the futurism, intersectionism and sensationism of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, especially on the second issue, in which it substituted the founded to head the Orpheus review.For its first issue of the Orpheu, de Montalvor wrote an "introduction", finding to make an aesthetic orientation of the review. However, the text was confusing, translated its differences of its young writers. The only number of the Centauro review opens with a "Tentative of an essay on Decadence", and that de Montalvor was more explicit, although it remains anchored in aesthetic values of the 19th century, especially that inspired by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck.