Brazilian writer born in São Paulo, SP, founder of Chair No. 40 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1897). Son of Martinho da Silva Prado and Veridiana da Silva Prado, a wealthy family from São Paulo, he was involved from his youth in historical studies. As a university student, he was a regular contributor to Correio Paulistano, where he signed critical articles literary and international politics and graduated in Law at the traditional Faculty of São Paulo (1881). He went on to live in Portugal, where he became friends with Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão, and for some time he worked as an attaché in the Brazilian delegation in London.
He visited several European countries and also Egypt. Of these journeys he would give meticulous observations in his book Travels, published in Paris (1886). He maintained friendly relations with the Baron of Rio Branco, collaborating in the edition of Le Brésil (1889), work published on the occasion of the Paris International Exhibition, commemorating the centenary of the Revolution French. A convinced monarchist wrote, under the pseudonym Frederico de S., a series of protest articles in Revista de Portugal, later collected and published under the title Facts of the military dictatorship in Brazil (1890).
He returned to Brazil (1893) and began to criticize the foreign policy of the republican government of Floriano Peixoto, in a fruitless struggle for the restoration of the monarchy. He founded the newspaper Comércio de São Paulo (1895) and died six years later in São Paulo. He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1897), in which he occupied chair number 40, whose patron is the Visconde do Rio Branco. He also belonged to the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, as corresponding partner.
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