Varnhagen in movement: a brief anthology of an existence

The purpose of this article is to outline a life and work brief anthology of historian Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen (1816-1878), who lived mainly out of Brazil. I try to relate part of his extensive work to a distant look, as an effect of his continuous movement in search of files and documents on...

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Main Authors: Temístocles Cezar, Eoin Paul O'Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Series:Topoi
Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1518-33192007000100003&lng=en&tlng=en