Domingos Jose Gonçalves de Magalhães

Domingos Jose Gonçalves de Magalhães (born the August 13rd 1811 with Rio de Janeiro - died the July 10th 1882 with Rome, Italy), first and single baron, then Viscount of Araguaia, wire of Pedro Gonçalves de Magalhães Chaves, was a doctor, professor, diplomat, politician, writer and Brazilian poet of the 19th century. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantisme in Brazil, starting from the publication, in 1836 of his collection of poetry Suspiros poéticos E saudades . He was also a dramatic author, and was thus the first Brazilian one to write a tragedy.

Biography

August 1st Domingos Jose Gonçalves de Magalhães was brought to fill of many diplomatic missions in France, in Italy, with the the Vatican, in Argentine, Uruguay and with the Paraguay.

He died in Rome, where it was to represent its country near the the Holy See, the July 10th 1882.

Titles of nobility and decorations

Baron d' Araguaia, titrates conferred by imperial decree of the July 17th 1872.
Viscount of Araguaia, titrates conferred by imperial decree of the August 12th 1874.
Commander of the imperial Order of Christ;
Commander about Saint-François of Naples;
Dignitary of the imperial Order of the Rose
Officer of the imperial Order of Cruzeiro.

Gonçalves de Magalhães and Romanticism

After having completed its studies of Medicine, Domingos Jose Gonçalves de Magalhães travelled to Europe, where he discovered the romantic ideas. On its return, it was a crucial factor of the introduction of this movement into its country, and played, with the other Brazilian romantic writers, a big role in the process of national identification of the Brésil according to independence. Its importance is due especially to the fact that it was the introducer of the Romantisme in Brazil, and that although its works were regarded as weak by the literary critic. Although it had returned towards a religious poetry, as that appears clearly in Suspiros poéticos E saudades , it also cultivated a poetry nationalist indianist of character, as in the poem epic has Confederação back Tamoios (1857. This work started a violent polemic with Jose de Alencar, because of the vision very distant one from the other, that each author had Indien.

Works

Suspiros poéticos E saudades (1836) - regarded as a work marking the beginning of the Brazilian romanticism
Antonio Jose or O poeta E has Inquisição (1839)
has Confederação back Tamoios , poem epic (1857)
Fatos C Espírito Humano , treated philosophical (1858)

External bonds

Suspiros Poéticos E Saudades
Text (in Portuguese) of Gonçalves de Magalhães '' Napoleão EM Waterloo ''

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