OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de). CARTAS Familiares, Historicas, Politicas, e Criticas. Lisboa. 1855.

OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de). CARTAS Familiares, Historicas, Politicas, e Criticas. Lisboa. 1855.

OLIVEIRA (Francisco Xavier de)
CARTAS Familiares, Historicas, Politicas, e Criticas. Discursos Serios e Jocosos Dedicados à Excellentissima Senhora Condessa de Vimioso. Lisboa: s.n., 1855.

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Francisco Xavier de Oliveira (1702-1783), or Cavaleiro de Oliveira as he is better known, served as an Officer at the Court of Tales from the age of fourteen at the age of thirty-one. On the death of his father, he was appointed to replace him as Secretary to the Count of Tarouca, plenipotentiary minister in Vienna, leaving for that city in April 1734, never returning to Portugal. It seems that he was never sworn in due to differences with the ambassador, and some stratagems to remedy the situation in his favor failed. Ruined, he went to Holland in 1740, where he began to publish his works, and then to England, in 1744, where he converted to Protestantism. The Inquisition sued him and burned his effigy in an auto-da-fé. His work can be divided into two distinct periods, coinciding with his stays in The Hague and in England. The "Family Letters" are part of the first, characterized by the attempt to clarify Portuguese and foreigners about some national values generally despised. All of his work stands as one of the most violent attacks made against the Inquisition. Unusual and esteemed.

¶ Inocêncio, 3, p. 90

 

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