{"id":173,"date":"2017-06-21T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.ufpel.edu.br\/cifmp\/?p=173"},"modified":"2017-06-21T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T03:06:44","slug":"a-brief-history-of-pelotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.ufpel.edu.br\/cifmp\/a-brief-history-of-pelotas\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of Pelotas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A French painter, Jean-Baptiste Debret, depicted the \u2018small rounded leather boats\u201d, known as \u2018pelotas\u2019 in one of his paintings in the early XIX century in his visit to southern Brazil. The city of Pelotas was founded in the 1780\u2019s with the establishment of the first charqueadas<\/em>, or livestock ranches, where cattle were killed and their meat dried in the sun, which turned the town into a jerked meat industrial hub in Rio Grande do Sul. One of the first charqueadores <\/em>or cattle ranchers was Domingos de Almeida, an intellectual leader of the Farroupilha Revolution (1835 \u2013 1845). The rapid economic growth of the town not only made its name known on the world map, but also enabled many of its inhabitants to be educated in Europe, where they would bring back a strong cultural and architectural influence from, thus allowing the town dwellers of the time to dub it as \u201cThe Athens of Rio Grande do Sul\u201d and \u201cSouthern Princess\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pelotas attracted distinguished travelers and chroniclers, such as Saint-Hillaire and Ars\u00e8ne-Isabelle in its early days. The town became a freguesia, <\/em>with an independent parish from its mother county, in 1812 to quickly reach a population similar to that of Porto Alegre and S\u00e3o Paulo by the end of the nineteenth century. Its economy allowed the construction of the first steamboat in Brazil. If on the one hand its growth was essentially due to slave labor, on the other hand some it its sons were eminent political personalities, such as Ferreira Viana \u2013 the author of the slavery abolition bill in Brazil \u2013 and\u00a0 \u00c1lvaro Chaves, who reorganized the Republican Party in Rio de Janeiro and founded the Republican Club of Rio Grande do Sul. In fact, Pelotas is the only Brazilian city to have erected a pro-Republic obelisk during the monarchy. The slavery past of the city and its Public Library, built in 1875, have also attracted many researchers, among whom the sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who sought subsidies for his thesis Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil<\/em> in the local library.<\/p>\n

The economic and cultural growth of the past is reflected not only in the fontes d\u2019art<\/em> or fountains imported from France \u2013 landmarks of the town to this day, but above all in literature and art, from the poet Lobo da Costa to the intellectual and the writer Jo\u00e3o Sim\u00f5es Lopes Neto, who wrote Contos Gauchescos <\/em>(Tales of the Gaucho) and Lendas do Sul <\/em>(Southern Legends); both works would influence Guimar\u00e3es Rosa to write Grande Sert\u00e3o: Veredas (<\/em>English version titled \u2018The Devil to Pay in the Backlands\u2019). This was also the homeland of Hip\u00f3lito Jos\u00e9 da Costa, the \u2018Father of the Brazilian Press\u2019, and well as the first female doctors in the country. In painting, it is worth mentioning Leopoldo Gotuzzo, and in sculpture, Antonio Caringi \u2013 one of the greatest sculptors in Rio Grande do Sul. Pelotas also hosts 7 de Abril, <\/em>one of the oldest theaters in the country, and the Music Conservatory, the second music-teaching institution opened in the state and the sixth in Brazil, operating non-stop to this day. It is therefore no accident that the town also gave the music scene the lyrical soprano Zola Amaro. M\u00e1rio Ferreira dos Santos, often considered a prominent name in the Brazilian philosophical scene, also lived here during his childhood and adolescence.<\/p>\n

The Philosophy Graduate Program, as well as the Philosophy Department, are pleased to welcome its guests to this \u2018culture capital\u2019 of southern Brazil where the Federal University of Pelotas, with its 101 undergraduate, 39 Master\u2019s and 14 PhD programs, plays an important role in a city which houses over 30,000 college students.<\/p>\n

Prof. Lu\u00eds Rubira<\/em><\/p>\n

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