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Adalgisa Nery
This mid-20th century Brazilian poet and politician is little-known even in Brazil, but she intrigues me. When I was doing graduate work in Latin American Studies, my focus was the public and private roles of female relatives of the Brazilian political elite from 1930 to 1964. Adalgisa Nery was one of the few female relatives of an elite Brazilian politician of her generation to be elected to political office in her own right. Also, her combination of a literary and political career fascinates me. However, I wonder whether Nery is too obscure to have a Wikipedia entry that is longer than a stub, especially considering that both of her husbands (the artist Ismael Nery and the politician Lourival Fontes) do not yet have Wikipedia entries of their own (apparently not even in the Portuguese Wikipédia).

Diamantina 04:40, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * If there's enough information on her to make her longer than a stub, by all means do it. Her writing and political work make her notable enough for a feature article.  If you're looking at getting this to that quality, I have three suggestions: 1) get a picture, 2) expand the article (perhaps including how her writings were relevant/influential, specific actions in politics, etc.) and also consider 3) writing quick stubs for the red-links, which are a little distracting. Best wishes. --Scimitar 15:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, Scimitar. I've found a link to a reproduction of Diego Rivera's portrait of Adalgisa Nery, but it seems to be under copyright and thus not available for Wikipedia. Another page has a couple of Ismael Nery's portraits of Adalgisa.

Here are JPEGs of various portraits of Adalgisa Nery: paintings by Ismael Nery and Diego Rivera and a circa 1940s photo. Which do you think would be most suitable for the article?

Relevance/influence of Nery's writings? Specific actions in politics? OK. Let me do more research and get back to you on that. Might take me a few weeks, however. The Callado biography (my main source for the Nery article) does not delve much into literary criticism, and even less about Nery's specific actions in politics. (Callado does mention that Nery felt more comfortable in legislative committees than speaking on the legislature floor, and describes Nery's disdain for the coup of 1964 as evidenced in her newspaper column.) Callado's intention seems to have been a brief (less than 150 pp.) biographical portrait that would rescue an unjustly neglected figure from obscurity, etc. (Ana Arruda Callado, the widow of novelist Antonio Callado — oops, he's a red-link too! — might have also perceived biographical parallels between her and Nery.)

And many many thanks for writing the Ismael Nery stub, Scimitar. I have the Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro pós-1930 (excellent reference on Brazilian politicians) and should be able to whip up a 2-4 paragraph Lourival Fontes stub in the next few days, God willing.

Diamantina 10:37, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Anyways, anything else that you think is relevent from the Callado biography could be added as well. Best wishes. --Scimitar 15:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm glad I could help, though the stub would have been easier to write if I wasn't limited to English sources:). I think the phot is probably best for the article, if there aren't any copyright issues (I'm afraid that isn't my area of expertise).  Also, since Ismael died in '34, his paintings should all be available for use, and it certainly wouldn't hurt to include one or two of them.  (Possibly even in his stub?)