April 1593: the house begins
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Isto se passava em abril de 1593; no dia seguinte, começarão os trabalhos da edificação de uma pequena habitação que servio de residencia provisoria, até que os artesãos vindos do reino construirão e decorárão a casa que já conhecemos.
This was happening in April of 1593; the next day the work of building began, on a small dwelling that served as a temporary residence, until the craftsmen come from the kingdom built and decorated the house we already know.
The date is fixed: this happened in April 1593, and the next day work began on a small provisional dwelling, until craftsmen from Portugal built and decorated the house we already know.
Alencar snaps the timeline back to the house of Chapter I with a novelist's satisfaction — 'the house we already know' — closing the loop between the man's history and the setting we have already walked through. The precise date, 1593, quietly reminds us we are watching a specific, doomed moment of the colony being made by hand.
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