Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay

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Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
A painting of Taunay
Born	Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay (1843-02-22)February 22, 1843 Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Died	January 25, 1899(1899-01-25) (aged 55) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pen name	Sílvio Dinarte
Occupation	Writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist
Nationality	Brazilian
Alma mater	Colégio Pedro II
Literary movement	Romanticism
Notable works	Inocência, A Retirada da Laguna
Spouse	Cristina Teixeira Leite
Children	Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay
Relatives	Félix Taunay, Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, Adrien Taunay the Younger

Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (February 22, 1843 – January 25, 1899), was a Brazilian writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian, politician, sociologist and nobleman. He is famous for the regionalist novel Inocência [pt], considered a major forerunner of naturalism in Brazil, and for A Retirada da Laguna (1874; originally written in 1872 in French as Le retraite de Laguna), an account of an episode in the Paraguayan War. The Brazilianist Leslie Bethell has described it as "the one undoubted literary masterpiece produced by the Paraguayan War".^[1]

He founded and occupied the 13th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1899.