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Franklin Távora
João Franklin da Silveira Távora (January 13, 1842 – August 18, 1888) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance ''O Cabeleira'', set in 18th-century Pernambuco. He wrote under the pen names Semprônio and Farisvest. He is patron of the 14th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life João Franklin da Silveira Távora was born in the city of Baturité, Ceará, to Camilo Henrique da Silveira Távora and Maria de Santana da Silveira. He made his primary studies in Fortaleza. He moved with his parents to Pernambuco in 1854, ingressing at Law course in Recife, graduating in 1863. In 1874, he moves to Rio de Janeiro, writing for journals ''A Consciência Livre'' and ''A Verdade''. Along with Nicolau Midosi, he founded the ''Revista Brasileira'', which lasted from 1879 to 1881. He polemized with José de Alencar's idealist Romanticism. He also founded the Associação dos Homens de Letras and was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baturité
Baturité is a city of Ceará State, Brazil from the state capital Fortaleza. It is located in the microregion of Baturité. The population estimate in 2020 was 35,941 inhabitants. Economy The economy of Baturité is mainly agricultural and based on the cultivation of cotton, sugar cane, rice, maize and beans. History Baturité received the first railway in the state of Ceará. It started to operate in 1873. Today, this train station is a museum. Notable people *Nilto Maciel Nilto Maciel (January 30, 1945 in Baturité – April 29, 2014) was a Brazilian writer. He wrote poetry and tales in Portuguese, Esperanto, Spanish, Italian and French. He studied law at the Federal University of Ceará The Federal University ... (1945–2014), writer References Municipalities in Ceará {{Ceará-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José De Alencar
José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as " Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo. He was patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Biography José Martiniano de Alencar was born in Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, on May 1, 1829, to politician José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. His family was a rich and influential clan in Northeastern Brazil, his grandmother being famous landowner Barbara Pereira de Alencar, heroine of the Pernambucan Revolution. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1850 and started his career in law in Rio de Janeiro. Invited by his friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 Births
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clóvis Beviláqua
Clóvis Beviláqua (4 October 1859 – 26 July 1944) was a Brazilian jurist, historian and journalist born in Viçosa do Ceará, Ceará, in 1859. Beviláqua was professor of civil and comparative law in Recife. As the author of the Brazilian Civil Code of 1916, whose first draft he presented in 1899, and as that code's first commentator, Beviláqua was the founding father of Brazilian civil law scholarship. He founded and occupied the 14th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, from 1897 until his death in 1944. The chair's patron is Franklin Távora João Franklin da Silveira Távora (January 13, 1842 – August 18, 1888) was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, politician, lawyer and dramatist, famous for his Regionalist romance ''O Cabeleira'', set in 18th-century Pernambuco. He wrote under t .... References * Alessandro Hirata, Clóvis Beviláqua: o grande civilista da segunda metade do século XIX, in Carta Forense, 4.7.2011 Brazilian journalists 19th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1879. Events *January 1 – Benjamin Henry Blackwell opens the first Blackwell's bookshop, in Oxford. *January 11 – During construction of an extension to Birmingham Central Library in England, a fire destroys 50,000 books and the original manuscript of the Coventry Mystery Plays (including the " Coventry Carol"). *September – The English critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into permanent care at his Putney home. *September 6 – Arthur Conan Doyle has his first story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published anonymously in ''Chambers's Journal''. *October 10 – The collected works of the American poet Ethel Lynn Beers are published as ''All Quiet Along The Potomac and Other Poems''. The title poem is her best-known work. On the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey. *December – Walter Besant persuades Thomas Hardy to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1878. Events *January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. *June – Robert Louis Stevenson's three linked detective fiction short stories '' The Suicide Club'' featuring Prince Florizel begin publication in ''The London Magazine''. *June 10 – Konrad Korzeniowski, the future English-language novelist Joseph Conrad, sets foot on British soil for the first time, at Lowestoft from the SS ''Mavis''. *July – The Scottish poetaster William McGonagall, a self-described "poet and tragedian", journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. *August 3 – Guy de Maupassant writes to Gustave Flaubert, complaining about his monotonous life and his new job as an employee of the Ministry of Public Instruction in France. *October – The Peabody ... [...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 in literature, 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Oslo, 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 **Americans, 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 – Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1871 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1871. Events *January 1 – The children's literary magazine ''Young Folks'' begins publication in the United Kingdom as ''Our Young Folks' Weekly Budget''. *January – John Ruskin begins publishing '' Fors Clavigera'', his originally monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain". *March 18–May 28 – The Paris Commune is influential on the literary figures in the city at the time and far beyond: ** Jules Vallès publishes his newspaper ''Le Cri du Peuple'' February 22–May 23 (with interruptions). ** At the beginning of April, Victor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in Paris, on April 21 publishing the poem "Pas de représailles" (No reprisals) and on June 11 writing the poem "Sur une barricade" (On the barricade). **Émile Zola, as a journalist for ''Le Sémaphore de Marseille'', reports the fall of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1870. Events *January 19 – Ivan Turgenev attends and writes about the public execution by guillotine of the spree killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann outside the gates of La Roquette Prisons in Paris. *March 7 – Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma Gifford, in Cornwall. *March 28 – Serialisation of Kenward Philp's ''The Bowery Detective'' in ''The Fireside Companion'' (New York) begins, the first known story to include the word ''detective'' in the title. *April–September – The serialisation of Charles Dickens' last novel, ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', is left unfinished on his death on June 9 at Gads Hill Place in Kent, from a stroke, aged 58. *May – Karl May begins a second four-year prison sentence for thefts and frauds, at Waldheim, Saxony. *Spring – Serial publication begins of Aleksis Kivi's only novel ''Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers"), the first notable novel in the Finn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1869 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1869. Events * February 3 – Booth's Theatre opens on Manhattan with the owner, Edwin Booth, playing the male lead in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. *May 10 – As a protest against her drama school having been closed down by the Russian authorities, Swedish-born actress Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm delivers the lines in her next performance, Aleksis Kivi's ''Lea'', in the Finnish language, the first time it has been spoken in the public theatre in Finland. *May 22 – Serial publication of Anthony Trollope's novel ''He Knew He Was Right'' concludes and it appears in London as the first book to include a fictional private investigator, ex-policeman Samuel Bozzle. *August **Ambrose Bierce, writing a satirical column for the San Francisco ''News Letter'', begins to produce the cynical definitions which will eventually become ''The Devil's Dictionary''. **Macmillan Publishing opens its first American off ... [...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] |
