O provedor Júlio Lourenço Pinto: anatomia de um pensamento cientificista em prol da educação feminina

Abstract

This article aims to address the figure of Júlio Lourenço Pinto, director of the Misericórdia of Porto during the 1890-1891 term of office, who was a renowned theorist of naturalistic aesthetics and adept of scientific theories, which guided his thought and action, including in the Misericórdia of Porto government, as evidenced by the management report that he wrote and in which he presented similar to what happens in his fictional production numerous reflections on education and work, namely in the feminine universe, premises that he believed were fundamental to the well-being of the community because of their dissuasive action concerning moral and psychic pathologies that contaminated the modern society.