Livros Licenciosos Pedro Soriano um dos mais famosos patifes dos muitos que povoavam Lisboa no final do s culo XIX ficou na hist ria pelo seu atributo singular um descomunal membro viril cantado por Guerra Junqueiro Inicialmente o poeta mostrou se incr dulo mas tirando as d vidas pela observa o directa pasmou e ter exclamado que semelhante instrumento merecia ser cantado num poema Nasceu assim A Torre de Babel ou a Porra do Soriano que alcan ou de imediato um sucesso estrondoso. Note se que Junqueiro nunca permitiu que o poema fruto de um repentismo ditado por abundantes liba es fosse publicado mas os amigos que o ouviram fixaram no e depois surgiram v rias edi es clandestinas passando a ser a obra mais rara e cobi ada de Guerra Junqueiro. Ao poema segue se o texto O Casamento Simulado de autoria an nima A colec o de Livros Licenciosos tem como mote um verso do Canto IX de Os Lus adas Melhor experiment lo que julg lo A Torre de Babel ou a Porra do Soriano
Ana Maria Guerra bore Ab lio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to Jos Ant nio Junqueiro J nior a supply trader and farmer Ana died when Abilio was only three years old He made secondary studies in Bragan a and at sixteen he enrolled at the University of Coimbra to study theology Two years later he left to study law that he concluded in 1873 Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Hero smo Azores and later of Viana do Castelo In 1878 he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1885 he at Porto published site_link A velhice do Padre Eterno which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated he was involved in the political debate in 1891 writing Ana Maria Guerra bore Ab lio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro to Jos Ant nio Junqueiro J nior a supply trader and farmer Ana died when Abilio was only three years old He made secondary studies in Bragan a and at sixteen he enrolled at the University of Coimbra to study theology Two years later he left to study law that he concluded in 1873 Then he became secretary of the governor of Angra do Hero smo Azores and later of Viana do Castelo In 1878 he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1885 he at Porto published site_link A velhice do Padre Eterno which generated strong criticism from Portuguese Catholic Church After the British Ultimatum and the political crisis associated he was involved in the political debate in 1891 writing some best sellers that had huge impact in public opinion contributing to the discredit of the Portuguese monarchy and the success of the republican Party in the 1910 Portuguese Revolution He translated into Portuguese short stories by Hans Christian Andersen. He married Filomena Augusta da Silva Neves on February 10 1880 the couple had two children Maria Isabel Guerra Junqueiro on November 11 1880 second wife without issue of Lu s Augusto de Sales Pinto da Mesquita de Carvalho 1868 1931 and J lia Guerra Junqueiro in 1881 unmarried and without issue He died in Lisbon at the age of 73. In 1940 Junqueiro s daughter donated his estate in Porto that became the Guerra Junqueiro s Museum site_link.
