Franklin Távora

João Franklin da Silveira Távora was born on 13 January 1842 in Baturité, in Ceará, and grew up in Pernambuco. After graduating in law in Recife in 1863, he was a lawyer, civil servant and provincial deputy there, then secretary of the government of Pará in 1873. Settled in Rio the following year, he joined the Secretariat of the Empire. Under the name Semprônio, he attacked José de Alencar and defended a “literature of the North” against that of the South, which he judged full of foreign borrowings. He died in Rio on 18 August 1888.

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• NovelO cabeleiraFranklin Távora · 1876not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain