Reseña del libro: Dom Pedro II: Um Traductor Imperial, Noêmia Guimarães Soares, Rosane de Souza y Sergio Romanelli, (Org.)

Abstract

For most of the 19th century, Brazil was ruled by a constitutional monarchy headed by Don Pedro I, who, in the face of future political divisions, was forced to renounce his throne and leave Portugal. It was then that his son received an inescapable destiny: to be declared mayor in his 14 years to become Emperor of his nation, a task that he would carry out for the next 49 years of his life, between 1840 and 1889 when the military proclaimed it a Republic. and Termination with the Monarchy. This character, full of problems in the political, literary and public sphere of Brazil of his time, constitutes the protagonism of this work through which its organizers recall the history of the figure of Pedro de Alcántara, the name by which the Emperor Don Pedro II (1825-1891), called to be recognized as a man of letters, especially as a translator and not as a Monarch.