As Brazil's bicentennial celebrations come to a head this Sept. 7, the topic of Brazilian identity and the very essence of its statehood came down from the heavens onto its capital Brasilia, in the form of an escorted Brazilian Air Force plane carrying the heart its first emperor.
By receiving the heart in a state visit, Brazil returned Pedro I to the public imagination and its collective consciousness as a Brazilian hero, the founder of the empire who is relevant and alive in the present of the nation and the glory of the republic.
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