José Caetano Gomes

José Caetano Gomes is a Brazilian author known today mainly for Memoria sobre a cultura, e productos da cana de assucar, a work made widely accessible through Project Gutenberg and other digital libraries.

The book is a practical study of sugarcane growing and sugar production in Brazil. Rather than writing fiction, he focused on cultivation methods, manufacturing, and ways to improve results, which gives his work the feel of an informed agricultural treatise.

Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce in the sources available here, so much of his personal history remains unclear. What can be said with confidence is that his name remains connected to an important historical text on Brazilian sugar production.