The History of the Republican Regime (...) was published in instalments in the midst of the Military Dictatorship of the “ “, while the History of Barcelos was being published. The History of the Republican Regime (...) defended the Republic. Contributors included Jaime Cortesão (“Democratic Factors in the Formation of Portugal”), Agostinho Fortes (“Political Life of the Portuguese People from 1500 to 1820”), Joaquim de Carvalho (“Formation of Republican Ideology”), Francisco Reis Santos (“National Consciousness”), Luz de Almeida and Afonso Bourbon e Meneses (on secret societies and the republican movement). This work was incomplete, in the opinion of Luís Reis Torgal, who considered it less a historiographical work than “(...) an apology (...) for the fallen regime (...)” (L. R. Torgal, A História em tempo de Ditadura [History in the Time of Dictatorship], 1996, pp. 273-274). This work can be related to the ideologically more heterogeneous História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo (History of Portuguese Expansion in the World), published in three volumes by Ática between 1937 and 1940, edited by António Baião, Hernâni Cidade and Manuel Maria Múrias. In 1935, Ronald de Carvalho and Fernando Pessoa died. Montalvor wrote about both of them in the Diário de Noticias. Montalvor’s study of the poet of heteronyms is entitled Para o túmulo de Fernando Pessoa (To the Tomb of Fernando Pessoa). A brief essay on the profile of his Eternity: “Fernando Pessoa (...) is the lucid stranger of himself (...)” (MONTALVOR, Para o túmulo..., 1936, p. 79). In 1942, the journal Seara Nova published a Letter to Mr. Luís de Montalvor, on dignity, moral integrity, and selfless love of art, written by Adolfo Casais Monteiro (A. C. Monteiro, Carta ao Senhor Luís de Montalvor..., 24 July 1942, pp. 75-76). An anthology had recently been published, comprising a collection of works by Fernando Pessoa. The authors were Calvet de Magalhães and Jaime Cortesão Casimiro, both linked to the publisher Confluência (Casimiro, J. C., Sobre a questão da Antologia..., 9 August 1942, pp. 121-122). In 1943, Montalvor attempted (unsuccessfully) to continue his publishing activity with a historical publication about various figures from Portuguese history, entitled Vidas Maravilhosas de Portugal (Wonderful Lives of Portugal). On that occasion, he wrote to Antero de Figueiredo inviting him to be the biographer of one of the selected figures, presumably Nuno Álvares Pereira. He declined due to lack of time to carry out this task. In addition to the one already mentioned, the list of names included: St. Anthony; Fernão de Magalhães, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Luís de Camões; Bocage, Almeida Garrett, Camilo Castelo Branco and Mouzinho de Albuquerque. The biographies would be written by: Afonso Lopes Vieira, Aquilino Ribeiro, Augusto de Castro, Ferreira de Castro, João Ameal, Júlio Dantas, João de Barros and Vitorino Nemésio.

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