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A ordem de um tempo: folhetos na coleção Barbosa Machado - Topoi

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A ORDEM DE UM TEMPO: FOLHETOS NA COLEÇÃO BARBOSA MACHADO • 113RESUMONeste artigo, os autores estudam a gran<strong>de</strong> coleção <strong>de</strong> opúsculos montada no séculoXVIII pelo bibliófilo português Diogo <strong>Barbosa</strong> <strong>Machado</strong>, que integra atualmente oacervo da Biblioteca Nacio<strong>na</strong>l, no Rio <strong>de</strong> Janeiro. Destaca-se inicialmente a importânciada escrita <strong>na</strong> Época Mo<strong>de</strong>r<strong>na</strong> e a circulação <strong>de</strong> <strong>folhetos</strong> impressos como elementos<strong>de</strong> po<strong>de</strong>r. Em seguida, discute-se a coleção como agrupamento <strong>de</strong> peças preciosas, ea trajetória <strong>de</strong> ascensão social <strong>de</strong> seu artífice. O ponto central do artigo é a taxionomiaempreendida pelo colecio<strong>na</strong>dor, relacio<strong>na</strong>da também aos vários <strong>tempo</strong>s percorridospela coleção. Formula-se assim a hipótese da brecha do <strong>tempo</strong> em que vivia <strong>Barbosa</strong><strong>Machado</strong>.Palavras-chave: Biblioteca Nacio<strong>na</strong>l, coleção <strong>Barbosa</strong> <strong>Machado</strong>, <strong>folhetos</strong>, mo<strong>na</strong>rquiaportuguesa.ABSTRACTIn this article, the authors study Diogo <strong>Barbosa</strong> <strong>Machado</strong>’s great collection of pamphletsgathered during the eighteenth-century and housed at the Biblioteca Nacio<strong>na</strong>l, Brazil.At first, they highlight the importance of the written texts during the Mo<strong>de</strong>rn Age andthe circulation of printed doc<strong>um</strong>ents as tools of power. Then they discuss the collectionitself as an amalgamation of valuable pieces, as well as the way the <strong>Machado</strong> usedcollecting as a means to gain social prestige. The central point of the article is thediscussion of systematic, or division into categories (taxonomy) that the Portuguesecollector <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d upon to organize the vol<strong>um</strong>es as he assembled them, which is alsorelated to the various times along with the collection was put together. In such amanner, the authors formulate the hypothesis of break in time in which <strong>Barbosa</strong><strong>Machado</strong> lived.Keywords: Natio<strong>na</strong>l Library of Brazil, <strong>Barbosa</strong> <strong>Machado</strong>’s collection, pamphlets,Portuguese Mo<strong>na</strong>rchy.(recebido em janeiro <strong>de</strong> 2006 e aprovado em setembro do mesmo ano)TOPOI, v. 8, n. 14, jan.-jun. 2007, pp. 77-113.

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