Paper short abstract:

In 1826, the national deputy Januario da Cunha Barbosa presented the first bill of a Brazilian educational system law, which can show the influence of different dynamos of culture (Lisbon, Rome and Paris) at the Brazilian identity, that we intend to present.

Paper long abstract:

Januário da Cunha Barbosa was a renowned figure in the political and cultural environment of the early nineteenth century in Rio de Janeiro. Imperial preacher and Canon in the imperial chapel, constitutional deputy and famous editor, among others, of the newspaper Revérbero Constitutional Fluminense; Barbosa was a founder of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro and one of the first directors of the Library and the National Press. In 1826, inspired by the parisian Enlightenment of Condorcet and the new method of studying of the portuguese oratorian Luis Antonio Verney, who lives great part of his life at Rome, drafted the first bill for the creation of a Brazilian educational system law. Studying the intellectual history of this franciscan and his bill to the National Education, we intend to highlight the influence of different dynamos of culture (Rome and Paris) at the building of Brazilian identity. As our main references, we work with Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, who works with the hypothesis of a large Italian influence in the Brazilian colonial culture, as well as Antonio Candido, who pictured, especially after the Pombal administration, a gradual transfer of Brazilian cultural reference from Lisbon to Paris.