Consertar o Reino para tempos de Paz

Resumo

The Discurso fallando com El Rey D. Sebastião is the first known of D. João de Castro, grandson of the famous viceroy. It was written in an only day and headed to D. Sebastião, precisely ten years after his disappearance... The uniqueness of the historical and verbal context, the pioneering spirit and the scope of the proposals and the ability it has to represent the dynamism and evolution of literature of gender are reasons for the importance of this text, so far unpublished. In addition to dialogue with tradition, the Discurso has a well creased arbitrista brand, a pragmatic vocation, a clear political and economic realism. In the vast work of D. João de Castro, the arbitrista speech preceded the prophetic discourse...