The Monegasque
Antonio Francisco Alvares Florence

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Antônio Francisco Alvares Florence is a historian and the founder of the Hercule Florence Institute, where he has dedicated over twenty-four years to preserving the legacy of his great-great-grandfather, a pioneer of photography. He serves as a Contributor to The Monegasque™.
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ON A WARM JANUARY DAY in 1833, far from the gilded salons of Paris, history quietly shifted in a modest room in Campinas, São Paulo. With a homemade camera obscura and a sheet of chemically treated paper, Hercule Florence - an Italo-Franco-Monegasque inventor with an artist’s soul -...

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