Uriel da Costa : a trajetória intelectual de um judeu suicida em Amsterdam, no século XVII

Abstract

This work deals with the trajectory of the intellectual life of a new Christian, centered in the cities of Porto, where he was born, from Amsterdam to where he lived and Hamburg where he lived for some years, observing to what extent the influences in those places where he was, were indispensable for His alternation of thought to the end of his life. The chronological period that delimits our study is from 1580 to 1640, understood as the Philippine period and the Iberian Union in which Spain and Portugal were under the rule of a single crown, but also five decades after the creation of the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Focusing basically on the Jewish question. The research was centered in a documentation already explored, but also of some processes that complement our understanding about the subject and bringing an original interpretation, which gives account of explaining its alternation or evolution of thought. We also analyze the Christian-New element embedded in a vast Region, to the north of Europe in century XVII. The research allowed us to follow the development of Uriel da Costa and of the new Christians in the interior and exterior of Portugal, through the denunciations and the processes it was possible to perceive with what intensity Criptojudaismo was observed in Porto even with the threat of the vigilance maintained by the Inquisition.