His letters to Pedro II were often couched in language beyond the boy's reading level, and historians have assumed such passages were chiefly intended as advice that the young monarch might eventually consult upon reaching adulthood.
彼のペドロ2世への手紙はしばしば、少年皇帝が読む水準を超えた言葉で書かれており、歴史家はそのような文は主に、若き君主が成長してから指針となりうるアドバイスとして書かれた、と考えている。