Gabriel Pereira de Castro

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Gabriel Pereira de Castro (* 1571 in Braga , Portugal , † 1632 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a Portuguese lawyer, clergyman and writer who created one of the most important epics after the Lusiads in Portugal with his only epic .

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De Castro studied law in Coimbra and was an ordained priest. He then worked his entire life as a judge for criminal and military law in Porto .

His main work "Ulisseia" was only published posthumously by his brother four years after his death. It is a heroic epic in eight songs. Ulissia was published in 1636 and reissued in 1642, 1745 and 1827 and 2004. In the epic he speaks of the founding myth of the capital of Portugal by Ulyssis or Odysseus . It has been considered one of the most important epics of the Portuguese language since the Luisiads. His work De Manu Regia Tractatus was indexed by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1640, eight years after his death .

Only a few works are known so far. Lope de Vega dedicated a sonnet to him . As an author, wrote legal and poetic works. He wrote his works in Portuguese, Latin and Spanish.

A street in Braga is named after him.

Works

  • Decisiones Supremi, Eminentissimeque Senatus Portugalliae, Lisbon, 1621.
  • De Manu Regia Tractatus, 2 volumes, Lisbon, 1622–1625.
  • Ulisseia ou Lisboa Edificada, Lisbon, 1636, epic, posthumous.
  • Monomachia sobre as Concórdias que os Reis Fizeram com os Prelados de Portugal, Lisbon, 1738, posthumously.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966 . Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , pp. 697 (French, digitized from Google ).
personal data
SURNAME Castro, Gabriel Pereira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese lawyer, clergyman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Braga , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 1632
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal