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Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (February 22, 1843 — January 25, 1899) was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the Regionalist novel Inocência.
He founded and occupied the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1899.

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