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Antônio Francisco Lisboa, known as "Aleijadinho"
(little-crippled) because of the disease that deformed him without mercy, was born August 29, 1730, in the neighborhood of the Bom Sucesso in the city of Ouro Preto - the old Province's capital of the State of Minas Gerais.
Biological child of Manuel Francisco Lisboa, portuguese architect, and of Izabel, a poor african slave:
...in this Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição with my outhorization baptized Rev. Priest João de Brito the António, son of Izabel, slave of Manoel Francisco da Costa de Bom Sucesso, and put the saint oils and gave his right for lining...
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The father's name appears on the Birth Certificate as Manoel Francisco da Costa. Historiographers like Rodrigo José Ferreira Bretas (1858) affirm that both names belong to the same person.
Feu de Carvalho, author of Ementário da História de Minas (History's Digest of Minas) does not accept mistakes in any document of that Peropd. He argues that if Aleijadinho's father had da Costa in his name, the Chamber's Procurator would never consent that only part of his name be signed in any legal contract of documentation. He affirms that no other document have been foud with the da Costa signature. All are signed as Manuel Francisco Lisboa.
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Because of this controversy many historiographers as well as the Church deny the existence of Aleijadinho.
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