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Episode Synopsis
Recife Brazil The book Rerum per octennium in Brasilia, roughly meaning Eight years in Brazil, originally published in 1647 by Caspar Barlaeus, is one of the main historical sources on the period of Dutch Brazil governed by Maurice de Nassau, between 1637 and 1644.
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