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José Caetano Gomes
An early Brazilian writer remembered for a practical work on sugarcane cultivation, he wrote about agriculture with the clear, problem-solving tone of someone close to the realities of production. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his work an added sense of historical curiosity.
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Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar
by José Caetano Gomes
About the author
José Caetano Gomes was a Brazilian author who died in Rio de Janeiro in 1835. Modern library and literary databases preserve only limited biographical detail about him, but they consistently identify him as the author of Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar.
That work focuses on the cultivation of sugarcane and the products derived from it, placing Gomes among the writers who documented practical knowledge in Brazil during the late colonial and early imperial period. Rather than writing fiction or poetry, he appears to have contributed to a tradition of agricultural and economic observation that was closely tied to everyday life and production.
Because so little personal information is readily confirmed, Gomes is known today mainly through his books and their value as historical documents. For listeners interested in older Portuguese-language nonfiction, his writing offers a small but revealing window into Brazilian agriculture and the world around it.