ALENCAR

O Guarani 6.69 · 6.69

News of Portugal

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D. Antônio desejava saber notícias do Rio de Janeiro e de Portugal, onde se haviam perdido todas as esperanças de uma restauração, que só teve lugar quarenta anos depois com a aclamação do duque de Bragança.

D. Antônio wished for news of Rio de Janeiro and of Portugal, where all hope of a restoration had been lost — a restoration that came only forty years later, with the acclamation of the Duke of Bragança.

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D. Antônio wanted news of Rio de Janeiro and of Portugal, where all hope of a restoration had been lost — a restoration that came only forty years later with the acclamation of the Duke of Bragança.

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Alencar steps out of 1604 to remind us of history: Portugal, under Spain since 1580, would not be free again until 1640, when the Duke of Bragança became João IV. D. Antônio's hidden loyalty to a free Portugal is the seed of his own doomed 'kingdom' in the wilderness.

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