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Francisco Madureira

A poor orphan born in the remote Gram-Para region of Brazil, Madureira is a pioneer in the Brazilian type scene according to type researchers Fernanda Martins and Edna Lucia Cunha Lima. Brazil's Para province was a poor place in the 1820s. Madureira never left his home province of Gram-Para.

Printing authorization in Brazil was granted only after the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in 1808, with the installation of the Royal Press in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Francisco Madureira built---from scratch---a complete type shop in 1821 and printed some material for the government based on pictures prints he had seen. He cut, made punches, and cast the type. There was no metal type, or strikes, or any material the he could use for the task.

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