Publication

2001-06-01 - Duke University Press

Language

English

Word Count

86,500 words, Guess

Page Count

346 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780822327196
  • ISBN-100822327198
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001018769
  • OCLC Control Number45806428
  • Better World Books9780822327196
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCF2538 .W55 2001
  • LCCF2538.W55 2001

First Sentence

At the height of the authoritarian Estado Novo, the infamous Department of Press and Propaganda published an essay, written by Oswaldo Teixeira, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts and well-known painter, which acclaimed Getulio Vargas as a peer to Cosimo de Medici, the wealthy fifteenth-century banker who helped make Florence into the political and cultural epicenter of the Italian Renaissance.

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