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VIANA, Miguel Pereira (ve-ah'-nah), Viscount da, Brazilian author, born in Evora, Portugal, in 1779; died in Bahia in 1838. He received his education in the college for nobles at Lisbon, and afterward obtained a place in the office of the secretary of state, whom he accompanied to Brazil with the royal family in 1806. There he was appointed secretary of the commission to mark the frontier between the Portuguese and the Spanish possessions, became councillor of state, sided in 1822 with the party of Dora Pedro, who made him a viscount, and was appointed in 1828 civil judge at Bahia. He wrote " Romanceiro historico do rio Amazonas" (Bahia, 1825); " Ensaio historico e descriptivo do rio Amazonas "(1829) ; and "Descripcao geral da provincia da Bahia" (1832).
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