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Pedro Luís Pereira De Sousa
Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa (December 13, 1839 – July 16, 1884) was a Brazilian poet, politician, orator and lawyer, adept of the " Condorist" movement. He is the patron of the 31st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life Pedro Luís was born in Araruama, in 1839. He made his primary studies in the Instituto Freeze, in Nova Friburgo, where he met Casimiro de Abreu. Graduated in Law in the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1860, he established himself as a lawyer in Rio de Janeiro. A deputy between 1864–1866 and 1878–1881, he would also become minister of Foreign Affairs in 1880 and the governor of Bahia in 1882. Among many others, he was decorated with the Order of the Rose. He died in 1884. Works * ''Terribilis Dea'' (1860) * ''Os Voluntários da Morte'' ( 1864) * ''A Sombra de Tiradentes e Nunes Machado'' (1866) * ''Prisca Fides'' (1876) Trivia * He was the uncle of former Brazilian president Washington Luís Washington Luís Perei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araruama
Araruama () is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Located at 22°52'22" of latitude South and 42°20'35" of longitude west, at an altitude of fifty feet. In 2020, its population was 134,293 inhabitants, which places it the second largest population in the Região dos Lagos. The municipality of Araruama extends over an area of 635.4 km ², marked by plain if some lakes, including the Araruama Lagoon and the Pond Juturnaíba, situated between the municipalities Araruama and Silva Jardim Silva Jardim () is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 21,774 (2020) and its area is 938 km². Conservation The municipality contains the Poço das Antas Biological Reserve, a strictly prote .... Geographically it is the largest town in the Região dos Lagos. Its main geographic feature is a large bay by the same name. Araruama has a large area of Atlantic Forest in between the sea shore and the Araruama Lagoon t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre. * January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. * January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype photography process. * January 19 – British forces capture Aden. * January 20 – Battle of Yungay: Chile defeats the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, leading to the restoration of an independent Peru. * January – The first parallax measurement of the distance to Alpha Centauri is published by Thomas Henderson. * February 11 – The University of Missouri is established, becoming the first public university west of the Mississippi River. * February 24 – William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. * March 5 – Longwood University is founded in Farmville, Virginia. * March 7 – Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior
Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior (17 February 1845, in Rio de Janeiro – 20 May 1898, in Lisbon) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist. He was bachelor in the Faculdade de Direito do Recife in 1869, in the same class of the writer Araripe Júnior. His works switched from Romanticism to Parnasianism. As a diplomat, he lived in Santiago de Chile, Roma and Lisbon, where he finally stayed and he met intellectuals such as Eça de Queiroz, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (, 17 September 1850 – 7 July 1923) was a Portuguese top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped inspire the creation of the Portuguese First ... or Fialho de Almeida. He was a member and one of the founders of Academia Brasileira de Letras. Works *''Lírio branco'', novel (1862); *''Uma cena contemporânea'', theatre (1862); * ''Corimbos'', poesia (1866); * ''A família ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castro Alves
Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (14 March 1847 – 6 July 1871) was a Brazilian poet and playwright, famous for his abolitionist and republican poems. One of the most famous poets of the "Condorism", he won the epithet of "O Poeta dos Escravos" ("''The Poet of the Slaves''"). He is the patron of the 7th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life Castro Alves was born in the town of Curralinho (renamed "Castro Alves" in his honor in 1900), in the Brazilian state of Bahia, to Antônio José Alves, a doctor, and Clélia Brasília da Silva Castro, one of the daughters of José Antônio da Silva Castro (a.k.a. "Periquitão", Portuguese for "Big Parakeet"), a prominent fighter in the 1821–23 Siege of Salvador. In 1853, he was sent to study in the Colégio Sebrão, run by Abílio César Borges, the Baron of Macaúbas. There, he met and befriended Ruy Barbosa. In 1862, he moved to Recife to study at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife, but he was rejected twice. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Luís
Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (; 26 October 1869 – 4 August 1957) was a Brazilian politician who served as the 13th president of Brazil. Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonged to the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP) and served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic. biblioteca.presidencia.gov.br Facing the crisis generated by the in the United States, the president lost almost all his support. He selected his friend Júlio Prestes as his successor in 1930, but just three weeks before t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Brazil
The president of Brazil ( pt, Presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil ( pt, Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the ''President of the Republic'', is the head of state and head of government of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces. The presidential system was established in 1889, upon the proclamation of the republic in a military coup d'état against Emperor Pedro II. Since then, Brazil has had six constitutions, three dictatorships, and three democratic periods. During the democratic periods, voting has always been compulsory. The Constitution of Brazil, along with several constitutional amendments, establishes the requirements, powers, and responsibilities of the president, their term of office and the method of election. Jair Bolsonaro is the 38th and current president. He was sworn in on 1 January 2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1876. Events *February 24 – The stage première of the verse-play ''Peer Gynt'' by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway. *February/March – ''The Harvard Lampoon'' humor magazine is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *March 14 – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma established in Rome. *March **American librarian Melvil Dewey first publishes the Dewey Decimal Classification system. **George Bernard Shaw moves permanently from Dublin to England, after which he begins his writing career as the ghostwriter of a musical column in London satirical weekly ''The Hornet''. *April – Émile Zola's ''L'Assommoir'' begins serialization in ''Le Bien public''. Its low-life themes cause it to be suspended after six episodes; serialization resumes in July in ''La République des lettres''. *July – William Heffer takes over his first books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1866. Events *January – Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel ''Crime and Punishment'' (Преступлéние и наказáние, ''Prestupleniye i nakazaniye'') is serialized through the year in the monthly literary magazine '' Russkiy Vestnik'' (Русскій Вѣстникъ, "The Russian Messenger"). His novella '' The Gambler'' (Игрок, ''Igrok'') is dictated to his future wife to meet a publisher deadline of November 1. *July – Anthony Trollope's novel ''Nina Balatka: The Story of a Maiden of Prague'' is initially published anonymously (serialisation in ''Blackwood's Magazine'' July 1866 – January 1867). Trollope is interested in discovering whether his books sell on their own merits or as a consequence of the author's name and reputation. *September 8 – London publisher Samuel Orchart Beeton is obliged by the financial panic of 1866 to settle all his debts by selling his property. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1864. —Opening of '' Our Mutual Friend'' Events *January – Anthony Trollope's ''Can You Forgive Her?'', the first of his Palliser novels, begins to appear in monthly parts in London. Trollope completes it on April 28 and the first volume is published as a book in September by Chapman & Hall. In April, '' The Small House at Allington'' concludes publication in the ''Cornhill Magazine'' and is published in book form by George Smith. * January 2–April 16 – James Payn publishes his most popular story, ''Lost Sir Massingberd'', in ''Chambers's Journal''. He follows it in the magazine (August 6 – December 24) by ''Married Beneath Him''. * February 20 – Painter George Frederic Watts marries his 16-year-old model, the actress Ellen Terry, 30 years his junior, in London. She elopes less than a year later. *March (dated January–February) – The first issue of the Russian literary magazine ''Ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1860. Events *January **The first issue of the ''Cornhill Magazine'' appears in London. It serializes Anthony Trollope's '' Framley Parsonage'' throughout the year. ** Mrs. Henry Wood's "sensation novel" '' East Lynne'' begins serialization in ''The New Monthly Magazine''. Her first full-length novel, ''Danesbury House'', also appears this year. **Approximate date – The Catholic newspaper ''L'Univers'' is suppressed by the French government. *January 28 – The first of Charles Dickens' literary sketches generally titled ''The Uncommercial Traveller'' appears in his magazine '' All the Year Round''. *February – Mary Elizabeth Braddon gives up her acting career to write. In the same year she meets her future husband John Maxwell. *March 27 – The Irish melodrama ''The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen'', written by and starring Dion Boucicault, is first performed at Miss Laura Keene's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
