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O Dono do Mundo

television series

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ10339057 ↗
Source-derived summary

O Dono do Mundo (English: The Owner of the World) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo from May 20, 1991 to January 3, 1992 in 197 episodes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “O Dono do Mundo” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dono, Mundo and television.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dono, Mundo and television providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “O Dono do Mundo”, the useful work is to connect “television series” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10339057. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1992.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “O Dono do Mundo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow O Dono do Mundo primary sources, O Dono do Mundo archive and Dono research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “O Dono do Mundo”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “O Dono do Mundo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.