author
Floriano Alves da Costa
b. 1825
A little-known figure from Brazil’s 19th-century literary world, he moved between commerce, journalism, drama, and poetry. His surviving work suggests a writer drawn to friendship, landscape, and the pleasures of stepping outside city life.
1 Audiobook
O passeio dos bardos ao Baldeador
by Floriano Alves da Costa
About the author
Floriano Alves da Costa was a Brazilian writer born in Rio de Janeiro in 1825. A biobibliographical record from the Biblioteca Digital de Literatura de Países Lusófonos describes him as a merchant, journalist, dramatist, and poet, which hints at a life spread across both literary and practical worlds.
The same record links him to several works published in the mid-1800s, including O passeio dos bardos ao baldeador (1848), Amores e saudades (1849), Guaraciaba (1850), Uma casa perto de tudo (1856), and the periodical A Luz (1872). That range suggests an author comfortable working across poetry, theater, and the press.
Today, he is best known through O passeio dos bardos ao Baldeador, a work preserved by Project Gutenberg. Its summary presents a journey by four friends through the landscape around Rio de Janeiro, with an emphasis on nature, companionship, and a temporary escape from urban life, giving modern readers a small but vivid window into Brazilian Romantic-era sensibilities.