Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman (1843-1899) · Brazil · Writers · Died at 55
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The Count of Eu (with his hand on the waist, center-right) with future Viscount of Rio Branco José Maria da Silva Paranhos Sr. (on his right, wearing a top hat) and Taunay (between the two) among Brazilian soldiers during the Paraguayan War, in a photo dating from c. 1870Family
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Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the regionalist novel Inocência, considered a major forerunner of naturalism in Brazil, and for A Retirada da Laguna, an account of an episode in the Paraguayan War. The Brazilianist Leslie Bethell has described it as "the one undoubted literary masterpiece produced by the Paraguayan War".
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