Manuela Azevedo | Geraldo Azevedo | Roberto Azevêdo | Belmiro de Azevedo | Artur Azevedo | António de Araújo e Azevedo, 1st Count of Barca |
Many of these writers were abolitionists that included Castro Alves, Joaquim Nabuco, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, and Naturalist writers that included Aluísio Azevedo, Jose Veríssimo, and Raul Pompéia.
Returning to Rio de Janeiro, he befriended many famous writers, such as Olavo Bilac, Raul Pompeia, Coelho Neto, Luís Murat, José do Patrocínio, Artur and Aluísio Azevedo, Émile Rouède and Francisco de Paula Ney.