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    José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784), known simply as Santa Rita Durão, was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered...
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  • (2004–2014) Joaquim Durão (1930–2015), Portuguese chess player Nuno Durão (born 1962), Portuguese rugby union footballer and coach Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784)...
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    Caramuru is an epic poem written by colonial Brazilian Augustinian friar Santa Rita Durão. It was published in 1781 and is one of the most famous Indianist works...
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    taken from extensive Germano mine, located in the Mariana district of Santa Rita Durão. The Fundão dam was constructed in hills near the village and subdistrict...
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  • adaptation of the epic poem Caramuru, written in 1781 by Brazilian friar Santa Rita Durão. Diogo Álvares gets stranded on a tropical island where he meets a...
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  • Ulissipo (1640), Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas: Viriato Trágico and José de Santa Rita Durão (1722–1784): Caramuru (1781). Ottava rima was very popular in the Polish...
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    Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic Caramuru by Santa Rita Durão (1781) Joan of Arc by Robert Southey (1796) Hermann and Dorothea by...
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    depicts the homonym character from the epic poem Caramuru (1781), by Santa Rita Durão. The work does not depict a scene from the poem, but instead Meirelles's...
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    including the poetry of Claudio Manuel da Costa, the work of José de Santa Rita Durão, Jose Basilio da Gama (author of "Uruguay", 1769), Tomas Antonio Gonzaga...
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  • world. For example, in the influential epic poem Caramuru written by Santa Rita Durão in 1781, the Caeté people were presented as the enemy of Caramuru and...
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