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França Júnior
Joaquim José da França Júnior (March 18, 1838 – November 27, 1890) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and, initially, a painter. Alongside Martins Pena, he is one of the most famous adepts of the "comedy of manners" genre. He is patron of the 12th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life França Júnior was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1838, to Joaquim José da França and Mariana Inácia Vitovi Garção da França. He studied in the Colégio Pedro II and at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo. Graduating in 1862, he moves to Bahia, where he exerces his profession for some time. Returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1880, he entered at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, where he studied under guidance of Georg Grimm. A member of the Grimm Group, he would later abandon the painting to dedicate himself only to literature. His plays are famous for mocking and ridicularizing the situation of Brazil during the final years of the 19th century. He died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escola Nacional De Belas Artes
Escola de Belas Artes (School of Fine Arts) is one of the centers of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and dates back to colonial times. A royal letter of Nov 20 1800 by John VI of Portugal established the ''Aula Prática de Desenho e Figura'' in Rio de Janeiro. It was the first institution in Brazil systematically dedicated to teaching the arts. During colonial times, the arts were mainly of religious or utilitarian nature and were learnt in a system of apprenticeship. The Decree of Aug 12, 1816 created the ''Escola Real de Ciências, Artes e Ofícios'' (Royal School of Sciences, Arts and Crafts), which established an official education in the fine arts. Then it was renamed as the ''Academia Imperial de Belas Artes'' (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts), instituting a system of artistic education that would greatly influence the development of Brazilian art. On Nov 8 1890, the old Imperial Academy was transformed into the ''Escola Nacional de Belas Artes'' (National School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbano Duarte De Oliveira
Urbano may refer to: * ''Urbano'' (album), a 2002 album by Elvis Crespo * Urbano music, an umbrella term for certain genres of Latin music People with the given name * Urbano José Allgayer (born 1924), Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church * Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (1859–1922), Brazilian politician * Urbano Antillón (born 1982), Mexican-American professional boxer in the Lightweight division * Urbano Barberini (1664–1722), Italian nobleman of the House of Barberini * Urbano Barberini (born 1961), Italian actor * Urbano Caldeira (1890–1933), athlete, coach, and manager of the Santos Futebol Clube * Urbano Cairo (born 1957), Italian businessman and chairman of Torino Football Club * Urbano Navarrete Cortés (1920–2010), Italian professor of Canon Law * Urbano Lazzaro (1924–2006), Italian resistance fighter who played an important role in capturing Benito Mussolini * Urbano Lugo (born 1962), former pitcher for Major League Baseball from Venezuela * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1890. Events *January – William Heinemann launches his Heinemann publishing business in London's Covent Garden with Hall Caine's successful novel ''The Bondman''. * January 25 – L. Frank Baum begins publishing and editing his newspaper '' The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer'' in Aberdeen, South Dakota; it survives for just over a year. *March 8 – Bram Stoker begins work on '' Dracula''. *c. June–September – Joseph Conrad, at this time serving as Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski with a Belgian steamer company, makes a journey on the Congo River which will inspire his novel '' Heart of Darkness'' (1899). *July 13 – Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", one of his best known works, is first published, in ''The San Francisco Examiner''. *July–August – Bram Stoker holidays with his family at Whitby on the north-east coast of England and from the library there re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1889. Events *January – H. G. Wells begins to teach science at Henley House School, north London, where his pupils include A. A. Milne, whose father runs the school. *February 12 – Henrik Ibsen's symbolic drama ''The Lady from the Sea'' (1888) receives simultaneous first performances in Oslo (in Norwegian) and Weimar (in German). *March 14 – August Strindberg's naturalistic drama ''Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)'', 1888, is first performed, by the Scandinavian Experimental Theater at the University of Copenhagen. His wife Siri von Essen plays the title rôle. *April 24 – The Garrick Theatre in London, financed by playwright W. S. Gilbert, opens with a performance of Pinero's ''The Profligate''. *May 30 – The English publisher Henry Vizetelly is prosecuted for obscenity for the second time in London; he is again fined and imprisoned for his English translations of Émile Zola's works. *June – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1887. Events *February – Oscar Wilde publishes "The Canterville Ghost", his first short story, in '' The Court and Society Review''. *March 30 – Théâtre Libre, established by André Antoine to promote naturalism in theatre, gives its first performances in Paris, originally as an amateur ensemble. * April 22 – Syracuse University in New York State purchases the Ranke Library from the estate of historian Leopold von Ranke, outbidding the Prussian government. *November – Arthur Conan Doyle's first detective novel, ''A Study in Scarlet'', is published in ''Beeton's Christmas Annual'' by Ward Lock & Co. in London, introducing the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler Dr. Watson (illustrated by D. H. Friston). *December 5 – The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886) comes into effect. *December 15 – The Romanian literary magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1882. Events *January 2 – Oscar Wilde arrives in the United States for an extended lecture tour sponsored by Richard D'Oyly Carte. He poses for iconic photographs in Napoleon Sarony's Manhattan studio. *April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti. *April 29 – May 6 ( O. S.: April 17–24) – The Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu reads out his '' Luceafărul'' at two successive meetings of ''Junimea'' club in Iași. The poem, on which he had been working since 1873, is his last major work before his mental health collapses, requiring hospital care in Oberdöbling; it will be published in April 1883. *May 8 – World première of David Belasco's ''La Belle Russe'' in New York City *May 20 – World première of Henrik Ibsen's controversial play ''Ghosts'' (''Gengangere'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1881 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1881. Events *February 13 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper ''La Citoyenne'' is published by Hubertine Auclert in France. *March – Ambrose Bierce contributes to the weekly satirical San Francisco magazine ''The Wasp (magazine), The Wasp'' (becoming editor by July) and resumes his column "Prattle" and the series of cynical definitions which he first calls ''The Devil's Dictionary''. *April – William Poel's production of William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' at St. George's Hall, London, reverts to the first quarto text and avoids elaborate scene changes. *April 23 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''Patience (opera), Patience'', a satire on Oscar Wilde and aestheticism, opens with George Grossmith in the lead at the Opera Comique in London. *July 7 – Carlo Collodi's ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (), a children's story about a wooden puppet in Tuscany, begins to be serial ... [...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] |
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] |
1862 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1862. Events *February – Ivan Turgenev's novel '' Fathers and Sons'' (Отцы и дети – old spelling Отцы и дѣти, , literally "Fathers and Children") is published by '' Russkiy Vestnik'' in Moscow. *March 30 or 31 – The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel ''Les Misérables'' appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October. *April 6 – Two months after joining the staff of General William Babcock Hazen, Ambrose Bierce joins in the Battle of Shiloh, later the subject of a memoir. Among those on the opposite side is the future journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who will also record his experiences. *April 28 – Thomas Hardy becomes an assista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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