Overview
António Vieira was a Jesuit born in Lisbon in 1608 who lived and worked in both Europe and Brazil in the service of the church and the Portuguese crown. His sermons are among the most renowned pieces of baroque oratory in the Portuguese language. This volume translates six of them into English, fully annotated, for the first time. Viera was an outspoken critic of both religious and political practices and institutions. He defended the Brazilian Indians from the abuses of colonists, the New Christians from the persecution of the Inquisition, and the poor and vulnerable in general from the oppression of the powerful. He was both a man of words and a man of action, a prolific writer and a tireless diplomat.
- | Author: António Vieira
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 02, 2018
- | Number of Pages: 257 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/History
- | ISBN-10: 0190858567
- | ISBN-13: 9780190858568
