The Quarrel of the Original: notes on polemical between Sílvio Romero and Teófilo Braga

Abstract

This article focuses the polemic between two important intellectuals on cultural Luso-Brazilian scene: Sílvio Romero and Teófilo Braga. The study of intensity, covering and extension of this polemic make possible to illustrate the subjects which changes, debates and critics were happen between Brazil and Portugal in the ends of nineteen century, beyond allow a reflection about the dimension of the national scale as historic standard used on understanding of interfaces between cultures, images that work as taxonomic instruments of national memories.