Afonso Arinos
Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco ( born May 1, 1868 in Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil, † February 19, 1916 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Brazilian lawyer and writer. He was, from 1901, member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Afonso Arinos was the son of Virgílio de Melo Franco and Ana Leopoldina de Melo Franco. He received his first education in Goiás, a place where his father was transferred. The high school, he finally visited in São João del Rei and Rio de Janeiro.
In 1885 he began to study law in São Paulo. Since his student days, he showed increasing interest in the literature and began to write some stories.
After successfully completing his studies in 1889 he moved with his family to Ouro Preto, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais. There, he applied first with success for a vacancy as a teacher of history. Later he became one of the founders of the Faculty of Law of the State of Minas Gerais, where he teaches criminal law.
During the armed uprising of 1893/94 he harbored in his house a few writers who had to flee from Rio de Janeiro.
Afonso Arinos published in the 90s of the 19th century, a series of papers in the Revista Brasileira and the Revista do Brasil. At the invitation of Eduardo Prado, he took over in 1897 the management of the journal Comércio de São Paulo.
In February of 1901 he became the correspondent of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro appointed. In the same year he successfully applied for membership in the Academia Brasileira de Letras, chair 40, the Cadeira 40 in succession by Eduardo Prado.
The majority of his works were published after his death in 1916 in the years 1917-1921.
Works
- Pelo sertão - Stories ( 1898)
- Os jagunfos - Stories ( 1898)
- Notas do dia (1900)
- O contratador de Diamantes - Drama (published posthumously, 1917)
- A unidade da Patria (published posthumously, 1917)
- Lendas e Tradições Brasileiras ( published posthumously, 1917)
- O mestre de campo - Drama (published posthumously, 1918)
- Histórias e paisagens ( published posthumously, 1921)
- Ouro, ouro (unfinished)