The review was headed by Luís de Montalvor who also published its first volume.
But the then current literary was diverted to the futurism, intersectionism and sensationism of Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, especially on the second issue, in which it substituted the founded to head the Orpheus review.
For its first issue of the Orpheu (also as Orféu), de Montalvor wrote an "introduction", finding to make an aesthetic orientation of the review.
The only number of the Centauro review opens with a "Tentative of an essay on Decadence", and that de Montalvor was more explicit, although it remains anchored in aesthetic values of the 19th century, especially that inspired by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
This review published 16 poems by one of the Portuguese great at the time Camilo Pessanha,[1] republished in 1920 in the book Clepsidra, considered the most pure expression of symbolism in Portugal.