Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay
Brazilian writer, musician, professor, engineer, historian, politician and nobleman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (February 22, 1843 – January 25, 1899), was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the regionalist novel Inocência [pt], considered a major forerunner of naturalism in Brazil, and for A Retirada da Laguna (1874; originally written in 1872 in French as Le retraite de Laguna), an account of an episode in the Paraguayan War. The Brazilianist Leslie Bethell has described it as "the one undoubted literary masterpiece produced by the Paraguayan War".[1]
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Born | Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay (1843-02-22)February 22, 1843 Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil |
Died | January 25, 1899(1899-01-25) (aged 55) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Pen name | Sílvio Dinarte |
Occupation | Writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | Colégio Pedro II |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Notable works | Inocência, A Retirada da Laguna |
Spouse | Cristina Teixeira Leite |
Children | Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay |
Relatives | Félix Taunay, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, Adrien Taunay the Younger |
He founded and occupied the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1899.