“Nobody precisely knew where he born, but it's known it wasn't in São Paulo, nor in Rio de Janeiro, nor in Pará. It was wrong trying to find in this man any kind of regionalism. Before anything, Quaresma was a Brazilian.”

—  Lima Barreto, book Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma

Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (1915)

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