Press, Porto Revolution and political echoes in Rio de Janeiro (1820-1821)

This article discusses the implications of the 1820 Porto Revolution in the Luso-Brazilian press of the period amid the crisis of the Portuguese Ancien Regime. Within the perspective of the Social History of Written Culture, with a particular focus on the circulation of ideas on both sides of the Atlantic, we address how the news of this political event were apprehended by the joanine society living in Rio de Janeiro and its developments for the transformation of the press order in the city in the year 1821