Alfredo Descragnolle Taunay (1843-1899)
Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, 1st and Only Viscount of Taunay was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the Regionalist novel Inocncia. He founded and occupied the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1899.
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