{"id":3404,"date":"2026-06-10T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/?post_type=selezione_antologica&p=3404"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T12:31:44","slug":"old-brazil","status":"publish","type":"selezione_antologica","link":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/selezione_antologica\/old-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":3400,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-3404","selezione_antologica","type-selezione_antologica","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-culture-and-literature"],"acf":{"riassunto":"","composizione_articolo":[{"acf_fc_layout":"composizione_articolo_testo","composizione_articolo_testo_testo":"

First chronicler: PERO VAZ CAMINHA<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The discovery<\/em><\/p>\n

We continued our long journey across the sea<\/p>\n

Until the 8th<\/sup> day of Easter<\/p>\n

We encountered birds<\/p>\n

And caught sight of land<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Savages<\/em><\/p>\n

They showed them a chicken<\/p>\n

They were almost frightened of it<\/p>\n

And did not want to touch it<\/p>\n

And later they grabbed it, almost frightened<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Young girls<\/em><\/p>\n

There were three or four child-like girls<\/p>\n

With jet black hair to their shoulders<\/p>\n

And their bare privates were very pleasing<\/p>\n

And we happily ogled<\/p>\n

Shamelessly<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Second chronicler:<\/strong> GANDAVO<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hospitality<\/em><\/p>\n

Because this is how the very earth is<\/p>\n

Favourable to those who seek it<\/p>\n

Inviting and hosting all<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Chorography<\/em><\/p>\n

It is harp-shaped<\/p>\n

Bordering on the high lands of the Andes<\/p>\n

And on the foothills of Peru<\/p>\n

Many of which stand superbly high above the earth<\/p>\n

It is said that birds cross them with difficulty<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Health<\/em><\/p>\n

That state of health and freedom from infirmity<\/p>\n

Comes from the crossing winds<\/p>\n

Which all come from the sea<\/p>\n

Reaching us clean and vaporous<\/p>\n

And not only they do no harm<\/p>\n

But create and nurture human life<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hydrography<\/em><\/p>\n

The wells of its earth are infinite<\/p>\n

Waters make water grow<\/p>\n

And many rivers flow from these<\/p>\n

From the North and from the East<\/p>\n

To enter the ocean\u2019s sea<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gold Country<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone finds a living<\/p>\n

No poverty knocks at the door<\/p>\n

To beg in this this Realm<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Still Life<\/em><\/p>\n

These fruits are called pineapple<\/p>\n

When mature they have a delicate odour<\/p>\n

To season the talhada<\/em>[1]<\/a> it is grated<\/p>\n

This is how they eat it<\/p>\n

And the inhabitants do more for this fruit<\/p>\n

Holding it in greater esteem<\/p>\n

Than any other fruit of the earth<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Natural Riches<\/em><\/p>\n

Many metals cucumbers pomegranates and figs<\/p>\n

Of countless varieties<\/p>\n

Citron fruits lemons and oranges<\/p>\n

An infinity<\/p>\n

Much sugar cane<\/p>\n

And also cotton<\/p>\n

In these possessions of ours<\/p>\n

There is much p\u00e0u brasil<\/em>[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Celebration of a people<\/em><\/p>\n

A very special animal is found in these parts<\/p>\n

It is called Pregui\u00e7a<\/em> [Laziness][3]<\/a><\/p>\n

It has a large mop of hair on its nape<\/p>\n

And it moves with a slow pace<\/p>\n

So slow that if it walked for two weeks<\/p>\n

It would not travel the distance of a thrown stone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Third chronicler: THE CAPUCHIN OF ABBEVILLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fashion<\/em><\/p>\n

The women do not have pierced lips<\/p>\n

But on the other hand<\/p>\n

They have pierced ears<\/p>\n

That they hold in high regard<\/p>\n

With round wooden plugs in the holes<\/p>\n

Just like women from here<\/p>\n

With their large pearls and rich diamonds<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Village<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a well<\/p>\n

Right in the middle<\/p>\n

Particularly beautiful<\/p>\n

And bountiful<\/p>\n

With clear bubbling water<\/p>\n

From there it flows<\/p>\n

And ripples into the sea<\/p>\n

Surrounded on all sides<\/p>\n

By palms guavas and myrtles<\/p>\n

Hiding in their fronds<\/p>\n

Barbary apes and macaques<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fourth chronicler: FRIAR VICENTE DO SALVADOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Countryside<\/em><\/p>\n

They cultivate palms with huge coconuts<\/p>\n

Mainly in sight of the sea<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Birds<\/em><\/p>\n

There are eagles of the bush<\/p>\n

And female ostriches as big as those of Africa<\/p>\n

Sometimes white and then others<\/p>\n

With black marks on their wing feathers<\/p>\n

Visible when outstretched<\/p>\n

Like a Latin sail<\/p>\n

They run with the wind<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Enemy Love<\/em><\/p>\n

Some women<\/p>\n

For the love they feel<\/p>\n

Even free their captives<\/p>\n

And start wandering along the lands<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Prosperity of Sao Paolo<\/em><\/p>\n

This county town<\/p>\n

Is guarded by four camps of friendly natives<\/p>\n

That the Fathers of the congregation convert<\/p>\n

And outside many more<\/p>\n

Who come every day from the bush<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fifth chronicler: FERNAO DIAS PAES<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tickets<\/em><\/p>\n

I will depart<\/p>\n

Another forty white men and me<\/p>\n

And my son<\/p>\n

And four of my troops<\/p>\n

Men who pay with lead and gunpowder<\/p>\n

Remember Your Lordship<\/p>\n

That this discovery<\/p>\n

Merits consideration for its wealth<\/p>\n

Even in emeralds<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sixth <\/strong>chronicler: FRA MANOEL CALADO<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terrestrial paradise<\/em><\/p>\n

The women go wild<\/p>\n

They are expensive<\/p>\n

And not content only with taffeta<\/p>\n

And the many jewels that adorn<\/p>\n

Their heads and necks<\/p>\n

Dripping with pearls rubies and diamonds<\/p>\n

Everything ends in delight<\/p>\n

And this land seems<\/p>\n

The portrait of a terrestrial paradise<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Last <\/strong>chronicler: THE TRANSLATOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Giuseppe Ungaretti) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rubber plantations<\/em><\/p>\n

Like all across the Mato Grosso<\/p>\n

The angico<\/em> abounds<\/p>\n

Some clumps of Indian soap tree too<\/p>\n

The libar\u00f3<\/em> of Guaran\u00ed<\/p>\n

And here and there, copses of rubber trees<\/p>\n

A tall and straight-trunked tree<\/p>\n

With its ambiguous bark<\/p>\n

Dear to the Cambeba people<\/p>\n

It bears a shining cupola<\/p>\n

That they see from afar<\/p>\n

Its dense leaves in groups of three<\/p>\n

But too green<\/p>\n

With its rubber<\/p>\n

Those natives make bottles and water-skins<\/p>\n

In archaic forms<\/p>\n

The Portuguese call<\/p>\n

That tall plant seringueira<\/p>\n

And seringa is the rubber<\/p>\n

And he who extracts it the seringueiro<\/p>\n

And the strange little wood is the seringal<\/p>\n

Extraordinary and truly beautiful<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

OSWALD DE ANDRADE <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The dismissal<\/em><\/p>\n

Things are<\/p>\n

Things come<\/p>\n

Things go<\/p>\n

Things<\/p>\n

Come and go<\/p>\n

But not in vain<\/p>\n

The hours<\/p>\n

Come and go<\/p>\n

But not in vain<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[1] Talhada<\/em>: cassava flour pie.<\/p>\n

[2] Brasil<\/em>: a leguminous plant (Caesalpinia echinata<\/em>). As this tree is abundant in coastal forests and gives us p\u00e0o-brasil<\/em> (Brazil wood), a dye plant that was the main export of the 16th<\/sup> century, it gave its name to the Santa Cruz land.<\/p>\n

[3] Pregui\u00e7a<\/em>: the sloth.<\/p>\n"}],"edizione":"N\u00b0 1, 1949","custom_sticky":false,"autore":[{"ID":384,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2019-04-09 10:06:20","post_date_gmt":"2019-04-09 10:06:20","post_content":"Poet, essayist and translator (1888-1970). Born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1912, he moved to Paris to study under Henri Bergson. During the Great War, he fought on the Karst, and this experience would form the basis for his first collection Il porto sepolto <\/em>(1916). Reaching international acclaim with Sentimento del tempo <\/em>(1933), he travelled frequently as special correspondent for \u201cLa Gazzetta del Popolo\u201d before moving to Brazil in 1942. Member of the Royal Academy of Italy, from 1942 he taught at the University of Rome and at the end of the Sixties received great and previously unseen popularity through television. Translator of Shakespeare\u2019s sonnets and Racine, he inaugurated with his complete works the first volume of the Meridiani series (1969).","post_title":"Giuseppe Ungaretti","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"giuseppe-ungaretti","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2019-04-15 16:18:07","post_modified_gmt":"2019-04-15 16:18:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/internal-pcons-be-fondazione-fr-dev-elb-1449244171.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/?post_type=autori&p=384","menu_order":0,"post_type":"autori","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selezione_antologica\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selezione_antologica"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/selezione_antologica"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rivistapirelli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}