Brazilian politician, professor, historian and writer, born in Ouro Preto, MG, who authored the famous book Why me proud of my country (1900), edited and translated for decades, launched the boastful neologism and a kind of cult of love for the country, which caused a great deal of uproar. With the papal title of Count, he obtained a doctorate from the Faculty of Law of São Paulo, and at the age of 21 he was elected federal deputy for Minas Gerais.
He actively participated in the abolitionist and republican campaigns, but, in solidarity with his father, Viscount de Ouro Preto, last president of the Council of Ministers of the empire, withdrew from political life (1903). Full professor at the Faculty of Law of Rio de Janeiro, founding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and perpetual president of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, he collaborated in numerous newspapers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and was the founder of Jornal do Brazil.
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He died in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, and in addition to the book that made him famous as a ufanista, he published Vultos e factos (1892), The emperor in exile (1893), the novel Lupe (1894), The Murder of Colonel Gentil de Castro (1897), Eight Years of Parliament (1898) and The Viscount of Ouro Preto (1935).
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