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“Hopes of Portugal” (1659) is one of the key sources for Luso-Brazilian messianism and the Fifth Empire project built by the Jesuit Antônio Vieira (1608–1697). Written by Vieira while in the Amazon forest, it was a mixture of letter, tract, and prophetic commentary, in which the Jesuit defended the resurrection of the late John IV in order to fulfill the imperial destiny of Portugal as head of the last empire on earth. Advocating the validity of the prophetical verses of a sixteenth-century cobbler, Bandarra, Vieira interpreted recent Portuguese history, drawing attention to the events of the Restoration wars against Spain, particularly in Brazil and Portuguese overseas domains. Through a figural and typological reading, Vieira tried to explain the expansion of Christian faith and the Portuguese struggle for independence as linked processes prophesied in a plethora of visions, miracles, and vaticinations. His arguments would be emulated by millenarians on both sides of the Atlantic but also criticized by other more sceptical or orthodox writers and eventually condemned by the Inquisition. In this chapter, we will briefly introduce “Hopes of Portugal”’s context of production, present its contents and sources, and discuss its reception, followed by the first annotated translation of the full text.
Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism In Iberian America, Spain and Portugal
Visions, Prophecies and Divinations is an introduction to the vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. This book is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic movements in the early modern Iberian world, and it is one of the first collections of essays on the subject to be published in English. The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antônio Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief and its political implications.
Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism In Iberian America, Spain and Portugal
Visions, Prophecies and Divinations is an introduction to the vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. This book is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic movements in the early modern Iberian world, and it is one of the first collections of essays on the subject to be published in English. The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antônio Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief and its political implications.