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José de Alencar


Born
in Fortaleza, Brazil
May 01, 1829

Died
December 12, 1877

Genre
Classics, Romance


José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani. He wrote some works under pen name Erasmo.
He is patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

José de Alencar was born in what is today the bairro of Messejana on May 1, 1829, to priest (and later senator) José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he graduated in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1850 and starts to follow his lawyer career at Rio de Janeiro. Invited ...more

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“Opportunity makes the man”
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“It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men”
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“Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity”
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