BUILDING A COUNTRY
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emka 2022-03-16 16:02
Hello Jorge, Nice picture of this monument but the note is most interesting. I do not know anything about the history of Brazil, so I read your notes with a big interest. As I remember, Lagos in Portugal was the place from where the slaves were sent. A black period in history. I read on Wikipedia about Machado de Assis and indeed, he is regarded as a black writer. I also remember that Brazil is a quite unique mixture of even four races, and there are special names for the per cent of each race.
I like this original column very much.
Best regards MAlgo
PS. The parents of Machado were Francisco José de Assis, the son of freed slaves, and Maria Leopoldina da Câmara Machado, a Portuguese washerwoman from the Azores. So it was a father who was black.
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03-17-2022, 08:12 AM
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To emka: error of memory
malgo
thanks for the note explaining the mother was portuguese, not the father. I guess I did that because in the case of Aleijadinho the father is really the portuguese. take care jorge 
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03-17-2022, 12:36 PM
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Aleijadinho
Malgo
Aleijadinho, o mestre do barroco mineiro, era uma figura que não deixou muitos registros de sua passagem pelo mundo, deixou alguns recibos de trabalhos feitos. ---- Alguns dizem que muitas obras dele foram feitas por alunos dele (como rembrandt e Da Vinci), para piorar, quando ele se tornou famoso no começo do século 20, muitos antiquários contrataram artistas para falsificar as obras dele. um abraço jorge
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