Nos arcanos do império: romance

Abstract

Areia has always been a city in Paraíba devoted to spiritual things and thus fostering an interest in the arts and literature in its children. It was thus the outline of a campus of culture and knowledge. Areia had the glory of raising children of the stature of Pedro Américo de Almeida, a novelist, politician and administrator, academic and a national name in the country's literature. Cordeiro Senior, José Rodrigues de Carvalho, Alvaro Lopes de Machado, Coelho Lisboa, Antônio Salviano de Figueiredo, D. Adalto de Miranda Henriques, 1st Bishop and 2nd Archbishop of Paraíba, Monsignor Sales, among many others who illustrate the national culture. exponents of yesterday, outstanding figures of always, Areia continues to give Paraíba and Brazil illustrious sons, who dignify all its history and magnify, in the present, the grandiose journey of the first. Ezilda Milanez Barreto, with this new work, personifies herself in the field of letters, with the strength of her rejuvenating spirit and the incessant vibration of her creative images, in the exquisite elaboration of her writings, of her historical literature, bringing out reminiscence and perpetuating the past, for the knowledge of the generations that are being born.