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During the period of 1854-1858, he went to Europe on special missions for the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

In 1856, at Leipzig, he published the three Cantos poetry books in one volume, wrote the first four cantos of the epic poem Os Timbiras ( that he would leave unfinished ) and also published a dictionary of the Tupi language.

Returning to Brazil, he founded the magazine Guanabara alongside Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre in 1849, and went on expeditions to Negro and Madeira Rivers, as a member of the Scientific Commission of Exploration.

In 1862, he returned to Rio de Janeiro, but soon went to Europe again, searching for a treatment to his diseases.

In October 1863, he went to Lisbon, where he translated Friedrich Schiller's The Bride of Messina and some poems by Heinrich Heine.