DOMINGUES (Antonio José).
Discurso composto e recitado por Antonio José Domingues no asylo das orfans desvalidas, depois do acto de sua inauguração no dia sete de setembro.
RARE RIO GRANDE IMPRINT
Despite the varied history of printing in Brazil, an official press wasn’t established until 1808 thanks to Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal the year prior. The first press in Rio Grande do Sul didn’t appear until June 1827.
Very rare, this speech was given as part of the inauguration ceremony for the Asylum for Underprivileged Orphans on 7 September 1855. Rio Grande do Sol is Brazil’s southernmost state, bordering with Uruguay. It’s come as as small surprise that such an institution would be founded at this time as, during the mid-nineteenth century, the state was in a near constant state of war.
Antonio José Domingues was an excellent choice to give the speech, being a knight in the order of Christ and a poet. Born in Lisbon in 1791, he arrived in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 16. He studied pharmacology, became a professor of Latin grammar in Porto Alegre and then in Pelotas (in the south-east of the state of Rio Grande do Sul), where he died in 1860.
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