“Welcome, old friends.” Pêro greeted Rafa and Diogo into his bedchamber filled with late afternoon sun.
“Look here, Padre Pêro.” Rafa pointed to an article in the Gazeta de Lisboa. “It’s a story about the royal decree of Marquis of Pombal and what people are calling Pombalinos tiles.”
.Gazeta de LisboaPombalinos“Read it to me. My eyes are tired.” Pêro lay back in bed, resting his white hair on the wall.
Diogo set a potted red geranium in full bloom on the nightstand and then brought over two chairs.
Rafa sat down alongside Pêro and read. “The Real Fábrica do Rato and the Fábrica da Bica do Sapato pioneered the large-scale production of Pombalinos tiles, the tile style named in honor of the King’s Prime Minister, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello. Who was renamed by the royal court as
