Papers trips D. Pedro II can enter the list of World Heritage Site in 2012
D. Pedro I faced three wars, abdicated the throne and died young, at 35. It fell to D. Pedro II took advantage of the good life of the emperor. Interested in arts and science, made several trips through Brazil and the world, through Europe, the U.S., Egypt, Lebanon and other countries. On these occasions, he found local elites, went to dinner, museums and events. All this is recorded in about nine hundred documents, including personal diaries and drawings of the emperor, correspondences, theater programs, expense reports and newspapers.
The collection belongs to the Imperial Museum in Petropolis, State of Rio de Janeiro, and has just joined the National Registry of Memory of the World, UNESCO. In coming years, the museum aims to raise funds to digitize the material, making it available on the Internet, publishing journals and organizing a large exhibition. And for 2012, there another plan for the collection: compete for the title of World Heritage Site, also by Unesco.
The first trip to D. Peter was abroad in 1871, to Europe and Egypt. The second began in 1876 in the United States, where he met Graham Bell and the telephone. In the diaries, the emperor has experience with the invention, which arrived in Brazil soon after. "D. Peter traveled more than any ruler of the time. He had grants, but say it took even borrowed money to travel. Always brought objects for his private collection, but also made donations, "says Lucia Guimaraes, a historian at the University the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and a member of the Institute holder Brazilian Geography and History (IHGB).
The acquis on trips to the museum was donated in 1948 by Prince D. Peter Gaston d'Orleans e Braganca, grandson of Princess Isabel. "With the early Republic, the royal family separated the private papers of officers, and led all individuals to Europe. Only then brought him back. We have here about 60 000 documents, "explains Neiba Cristina Machado da Costa, head of the Historical Archives Museum. Not all the papers belonged to the emperor. There are, for example, the diary of the Countess of Barral [See "The other half," p. 20], lover who accompanied him on some trips. The collection also includes letters sent by the Prince of Wales, by Louis Pasteur and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
However, what really draws attention are the diaries, where the emperor describes places, people and his meetings worldwide. "Few leaders left travel diaries as well. He went to Egypt to see the excavations and recorded everything meticulously. And when compared with what I had read about the places, "said Lucia. According to the historian, there are many photos of these rides scattered throughout the archives of the museum, the National Library and IHGB. With the award, the material of Petrópolis will be on the Internet, but researchers still may make valuable discoveries rolling his other achievements.
SOURCE: RHBN
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