{"id":22038,"date":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisaclone.fapesp.br\/2004\/11\/01\/a-majestic-marquis\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:11:37","slug":"a-majestic-marquis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/a-majestic-marquis\/","title":{"rendered":"A majestic marquis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine years after coming back from Par\u00e1, where he had lived since graduating, with great success, and had started a career of a man of letters, Jo\u00e3o L\u00facio de Azevedo published in Lisbon O Marqu\u00eas de Pombal e a sua \u00e9poca<\/em> [The Marquis of Pombal and his Epoch]. A preliminary two-page note clarified that one is dealing with a work averse to polemics. From an analysis of original documents, added to later with testimony of the Marquis himself, in private letters and notes, it is presented as a version “sometime perchance” diverse from the “facts that came to pass”, although, surely, committed to truth. “Historical truth, which is really critical truth”.<\/p>\n

Another regime was then in formation. And as Pombal for long had imposed himself amongst the examples of republicans, the book published enjoyed noteworthy sales. Thirteen years later, commenting with Capistrano the twists and turns of the new edition, Jo\u00e3o L\u00facio himself revealed that, besides the one he had given to Ant\u00f4nio S\u00e9rgio, as a matrix, he only owned the copy he was using. In case of need, it would be very difficult to arrange a third one, as the stock at the bookshop of A. M. Teixeira had sold out, and no other copy was to be found in the second-hand bookstores.<\/p>\n

The new edition ended up coming out in Rio de Janeiro in mid-August 1922. With sponsorship from Seara Nova and Renascen\u00e7a. At this point of time, its author was also known for a series of other works, almost all classics right from birth, like Evolu\u00e7\u00e3o do sebastianismo<\/em> [Evolution of Sebastianism], Hist\u00f3ria de Ant\u00f4nio Vieira<\/em> [History of Antonio Vieira] and Hist\u00f3ria dos crist\u00e3os-novos<\/em> [History of the New Christians]. Joined to these were several erudite articles, in various magazines, of which worth highlighting is the Bulletin of the 2nd<\/sup> Class of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. Years after, there came out \u00c9pocas de Portugal econ\u00f3mico<\/em> [Epochs of Economic Portugal], for some his greatest masterpiece.<\/p>\n

An ambitious project is now emerging in S\u00e3o Paulo of republishing all the autonomous titles of this noteworthy representative of Portuguese historiography, or, more properly, of Luso-Brazilian historiography. And Marqu\u00eas de Pombal e a sua \u00e9poca is the volume that marks the take-off of the venture. Existing behind this choice there are institutional reasons, connected with the academic programming of an entity currently maintained with the cooperation of the Cam\u00f5es Institute, of Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: the Jaime Cortes\u00e3o Chair.<\/p>\n

From the middle of the month of November, both at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) and at the State Art Gallery and the Ipiranga Museum, debates and exhibitions are going to be held about the new role that the government of el-rei d. Jos\u00e9 recognized for S\u00e3o Paulo, above all following the government of Morgado de Mateus. Even today, though, continuing to be a sort of obligatory point of reference amongst specialists in the 18th<\/sup> century, and having proven interest for readers from other areas or even simple lovers of good prose, O Marqu\u00eas de Pombal e a sua \u00e9poca<\/em> is hardly a risky bet. In this new volume, all the work denotes care and very good taste. The text block of the pages is agreeable, and the size adopted is an invitation for taking to read in the palm of the hand.<\/p>\n

The personage that serves as its theme arises on the cover with the brothers that helped him to make a fortune: Paulo de Carvalho e Ata\u00edde, a priest of the Patriarchal Church, and Francisco Xavier de Mendon\u00e7a Furtado, a Secretary of State for Ultramarine Affairs. They are embraced in a figure of eight on its back – a sign for the infinite -, as if to represent the great virtues of the union. Another engraving of note is to be found in the course of the work, as a counterpoint to this portrait ordered for the future: The Expulsion of the Jesuits, by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro – where on the shoulders of the majestic marquis rests the head of John Doe. A close friend of Columbano, perhaps Jo\u00e3o L\u00facio was amused with this satire. To our eyes, it also recalls the lasting effectiveness of his work in dismantling ready-made ideas.<\/p>\n

Tiago C. P. dos Reis Miranda<\/strong> is a doctor in Social History from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) and a researcher at the History of Culture Center of the New University of Lisbon<\/p>\n

O Marqu\u00eas de Pombal e a sua \u00e9poca<\/em> [The Marquis of Pombal and his Epoch]
\n<\/strong>Jo\u00e3o L\u00facio de Azevedo
\nAlameda \/ Jaime Cortes\u00e3o Chair
\n400 pages \/ R$ 54.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A majestic marquis","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"coauthors":[541],"class_list":["post-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}