Castrioto Lusitano: história, encômio e tirania no nordeste colonial

Abstract

This works goal is focused on the story about the Dutch invasion in Brazilians northeast, the book called Castrioto Lusitano Castrioto Lusitano. Entrepresa e Restauração de Pernambuco & das Capitanias Confinantes. Vários e Bélicos Sucessos Entre Portugueses e Belgas. Acontecidos pelo Decurso de Vinte e Quatro Anos, e tirados de notícias, relações e memórias certas. Composto em forma de história pelo muito Reverendo Padre Pregador Geral Frei Raphael de Jesus, Natural da muito nobre & sempre Leal Vila de Guimarães. Religioso da Ordem do Príncipe dos Patriarcas São Bento. Professo na sua reformada congregação de Portugal, & nela D. Abade do Insigne Mosteiro de São Bento de Lisboa este presente Ano de 1679. Oferecidos a João Fernandes Vieira, Castrioto Lusitano e por ele dedicados ao Sereníssimo Príncipe D. Pedro Nosso Senhor, Regente da Lusitana Monarquia. This book, written in 1676 by the Benedictine monk Raphael de Jesus, has João Fernandes Vieira, plantation owner in Pernambuco, funded and protagonist. The story, a history, is in agreement with the rhetorical-poetry conceptions that ruled the classical style at that time, and, by the ideal created in the vicinity of that war and showed in the book allow us to visualize how the scholasticism had been the philosophical conception that dominated and structured the Lusitanian political world. Following this perspective, the book analyses will go over the confrontations between the neo-scholastic rules that conditioned their intelligibility and the observation of the rationality of the "Catholic political" Lusitanian Court on the seventeenth century. Because it is a history book that tells us about one episode of the war against Netherlands happened in the Northeast, headed by Portugal kings vassal, catholic João Fernandes Vieira the Castrioto Lusitano also tells us about a vassal who pretends to be an ideal warrior and subordinate who fights for the conservation of the Christian Republic and for the common well. When presenting João Fernandes Vieira as a perfect vassal, Raphael de Jesus, in his rhetoric, uses tricks to hide fundamental aspects of his life, like his merchandised past and his doubtful ancestry, as well as his non-nobles actions.