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By Raphael Machado
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Today (21/04/2024) we remember the 2,777 years since the founding of Rome, the Eternal City, and this is not an irrelevant event - on the contrary, it concerns us as Brazilians.
The date is also the founding of Brasília, capital of Brazil. Juscelino Kubitschek inaugurated Brasília on April 21 precisely to coincide with the date of the founding of the Eternal City.
Not on a whim, but to strengthen the symbolic association between Rome and the capital of the State that has been thought of by intellectuals and prophesied by mystics as its heir, as the New Rome. For this reason, ancient Rome gave us as a gift a replica of the Capitoline She-Wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus (descendants of the Trojan hero Aeneas and, therefore, of the goddess Venus). And also at the time, the so-called "Symbolic Fire of National Unity" was lit, which should remain lit perpetually.
That Brazil is the legitimate heir of Western Rome is beyond any doubt. It is the largest of the countries born from the Roman/Latin seed. It is also, by nature, an Empire: in addition to being a large-scale politeia, it unites races, ethnicities, cultures and religions under the same idea and towards the same horizon.
The name of the country refers to red, the traditional Roman color; Furthermore, the country in its origins as independent claims the translatio imperii (the transfer of the Roman auctoritas), through a myriad of possible lines (from Spanish to Byzantine, passing through Habsburg, not to mention the Sebastianist mysticism of the Fifth Empire), especially after the extinction of the Holy Roman Empire.
In fact, "Augustus" was one of the titles of the emperors of Brazil, and Pedro I was also offered the titles of Caesar and Autocrat, but he mistakenly refused them.
Happy dreams are also the dreams of Dom Giovanni Bosco, who dreamed that where today is Brasília a "center" would emerge from which milk and honey would flow (an allegory representing abundance).
And these symbolic elements are complemented by the scientific vision of Darcy Ribeiro, who fully understood Brazil and its potential historical role as the center of a new civilization, a tropical heir to ancient Rome.
Commemorating the Foundation of Rome is, therefore, like remembering the memory of an ancestor, of a political project that was a precursor to Brazil and without which Brazil would never have been possible.
It's a shame that our State doesn't formally celebrate this date. It should.
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