Inspecionando o coração do império: a visita da inquisição à cidade de Lisboa em 1587

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Graziani, Erick Tsarbopoulos [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
• Palavras-chave em Português: portuguese inquisition; the tribunal of the holy office visits; lisbon; inquisição portuguesa; visitas do tribunal do santo ofício; lisboa
• Link de acesso: https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/trabalhoConclusao/viewTrabalhoConclusao.jsf?popup=true&id_trabalho=3098579; https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/47591

This investigation focuses on the analysis of the inquisitorial visit ordered to Lisbon in 1587 whose peculiarity remains on the fact that it is a visit to a host city of a Tribunal of the Holy Office. Generally, these visits were meant to be on distant regions of the courts, inland, on overseas islands, on Africa, India and Brazil. These are the visits made by the licensee Antônio de Mendonça, set in the Lisbon See, Diogo de Sousa in São Domingos and Jerónimo de Pedrosa, who was installed in the monastery of San Roque and in San Francisco. In this work we talk about the procedure of the inquisitorial visits to establish the similarities and specificness of other visits to this one in Lisbon. After that, we study the main characteristics of the visit to Lisbon from the analysis of its books, that contain denunciations and confessions, and from the analysis of the trials resultant from those accusations. Finally, through the bibliography we analyze the context in order to evaluate the possibility of other easons beyond the persecution of heresy for the fulfillment of the visit. Although there were reasons for the Austrias to make use of an inquisitorial tool with directly political purposes on the control of the population in Lisbon, we consider that this inquisitorial visit would not be, nor was, the best method for this scope. In addition of not having charges on any political level, there were not many aspects, especially in its results, that differentiate much this visit from the others. This led us to conclude that the main purpose of this visit would have been to reaffirm the power of the Inquisition, to make sure of the obedience to Catholic doctrine and to control the customs of Lisbon's population.