| Summary: | Over several decades, the plots of “campanha Homem Cristo” (Homem Cristo campaigns’) became
a taboo theme in the history of the 1st Faculty of Arts from the University of Porto. All the controversy
around three years from press coverage to parliamentary discussions, where use by Francisco Homem
Cristo to reveal facts, slanders and scandals with the purpose of discredit the institution and its director
Leonardo Coimbra. However, many of its claim, already been denounced before by other critical voices
at academic realms, also uncover some inconvenient truths concerning the school’s managing and
educational quality. Reaching a more broader perspective besides outdated personal questions, within
the aim of deconstructing this «historiographical myth», it will allowed to recognize the importance of
this campaign on the suppression of the first attempt of schooling Arts at the U. Porto.
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