As lágrimas e as setas Os Pia Desideria de Herman Hugo, S.J., em Portugal : os Pia Desideria de Herman Hugo, S.J., em Portugal

Resumo

This essay is an attempt at identifying the most conspicuous moments of the  diffusion   and  editorial  success  of  the  Pia  Desideria,  by  H.  Hugo,  S.J.,  in Portugal. After a reference to the main readers of the work in the second half of the 17th century  (Francisco Manuel  de Melo, Frei António das Chagas,  OFM.,  Padre Manuel  Benardes, C. Orat.),  the  Desejos  Piedosos,  by  Jose  Pereira  Veloso  is analysed, using one of the rare surviving copies of its first edition (Lisbon,  1687). The latter work is an adaptation of the Pia Desideria based, for the iconography,  on the 1658 Castillian  translation by A. Salazar, S.J. The work enjoyed a relatively successful   diffusion  as  a  manual   for  the  preparation  for  confession   and  for communion. It is this use that this essay aims at contextualizing  within the spiritual currents of late 17th century Portugal.