Poetics, medicine and inquisition: persecution dialogue in Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas da Índia (1563) by Garcia da Orta

Authors

  • Daniel Vecchio Alves Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Gerson Luiz Roani Universidade Federal de Viçosa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.108002

Keywords:

medicine, inquisition, dialogism, oppression

Abstract

The aspects related to Oriental medicine are revealed only as a constituent part of the Coloquios dos Simples e Drogas da Índia, wrote by Garcia da Orta. The dialogical layout his text reveal how catachreses and oxymoron bring to the narrative strategies to head off the inquisitorial censorship, recording poetic marks raised by the various political and religious conflicts between Catholics and Jews during the Renaissance. This comparison will make our research be far from the limited view that classified this book as a simple registration of the Eastern unknown drugs, because our study will take into account that such dialogues earns another direction, focusing specially on the mark of this Diaspora caused by the mentioned conflicts and social discrimination that Jews and New Christians were victims since centuries ago. Its review will be very important for understand the Coloquios as a dialogic narrative resulted of this religion persecution, which takes accord to many intellectual works reflection that see this dialogues as a promising field for the study of the aesthetic in intense censor contexts, as well as for the study of the emergence of a narrative structure that pointing a presage of the bourgeois romance

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Author Biographies

  • Daniel Vecchio Alves, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
    Daniel Vecchio Alves possui graduação em História (2010) pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa-MG (2010) e é mestre em Letras (Estudos Literários) pela mesma instituição (2013). Atualmente é doutorando em História Cultural pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Seu interesse abrange os estudos sobre Teoria Literária, a Literatura Portuguesa de Viagens, a História e a Historiografia dos Descobrimentos, fazendo parte de grupos de pesquisa como o NEP (Núcleo de Estudos Portugueses da UFV) e o Mare Liberum (Centro de Estudos e Referências sobre a Cartografia Histórica da Unicamp).
  • Gerson Luiz Roani, Universidade Federal de Viçosa
    Gerson Luiz Roani possui graduação em Letras Português e Literaturas da Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (1995), Mestrado em Letras (Literatura Comparada) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1998) e Doutorado em Letras (Literatura Comparada) pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2002), com estágio de pesquisa doutoral (Doutorado Sanduíche) na Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa. Entre 2013 e 2014, realizou Pós-Doutorado (Literatura Portuguesa) na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. É Professor Adjunto IV de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Minas Gerais, atuando na Graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. 

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Published

2016-09-27

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Tecidos do humano - literatura e medicina

Section

Dossiê 29: Tecidos do Humano - Literatura e Medicina

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How to Cite

ALVES, Daniel Vecchio; ROANI, Gerson Luiz. Poetics, medicine and inquisition: persecution dialogue in Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas da Índia (1563) by Garcia da Orta. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 311–337, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i29.108002. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/108002.. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2024.