Rei ou funcionário público? História da historiografia de Pedro Calmon em suas biografias de D. Pedro II

Abstract

Pedro Calmon has written two biographs about D. Pedro II. Published with a time lag of approximately four decades in the 20th century, they draw a somewhat different profile of the biographed. The present dissertation aims to study these two biographs through a detailed approach of the author’s historiographical trajectory, considering his perception of history. Ultimately, this work aims to perceive how such aspect have changed through these two biographs. The strategy used for the author’s historiographical approach consists of the analysis of the author’s prefaces. In these, Pedro Calmon displays, in a very clear manner, his perception about important concepts of historiography. In addition to the profiles of D. Pedro II, formal aspects of biographies are considered.