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[|Human|] who was OctÃ¡vio TarquÃ­nio de Sousa
[|AI|] OctÃ¡vio TarquÃ­nio de Sousa (7 September 1889 â 22 December 1959) was a Brazilian writer and historian who wrote several works on the history of Brazil and some of its historical figures, such as emperor Pedro I, JosÃ© BonifÃ¡cio and Diogo AntÃ´nio FeijÃ³. His most notable work was the compilation HistÃ³ria dos Fundadores did ImpÃ©rio do Brasil published in 1957. In 1918 he became the general attorney of the Federal Court of Audits. In 1932 he became one of the court's ministers, retiring in 1946.[1][2][3] TarquÃ­nio began his career as a writer in 1914, when he published the work MonÃ³logo das Coisas, a collection of short stories with some of his memoirs, and began to actively collaborate with the journal O Estado de S. Together with important Brazilian intellectuals who emerged in the 1930s, such as Gilberto Freyre, Caio Prado JÃºnior and SÃ©rgio Buarque de Holanda, TarquÃ­nio elaborated studies on Brazilian history, bringing new concepts to historiography and writing biographies about important historical Brazilian figures such as Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos, Evaristo da Veiga, Diogo AntÃ´nio FeijÃ³, JosÃ© BonifÃ¡cio and Pedro I. The biographies were written from 1937 to 1952 and later compiled in a single work: HistÃ³ria dos Fundadores do ImpÃ©rio do Brasil (History of the Founders of the Empire of Brazil), in 1957, becoming his most notable work.[4][5] TarquÃ­nio died in a plane crash in Rio de Janeiro on 22 December 1959, together with his wife Lucia Miguel Pereira (b.
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