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The book deals with the epistolary of Damião de Góis from the perspective of the rhetorical constitution of his public prestige and the representation of his auctoritas, evaluating the dimension of the social relations that he established from his stay in Flanders in the service of the crown until his return to Portugal, around two decades later (1525-1545). During this period, we investigate how he could have developed the technical aspects of his epistolary writing, as well as its uses in the interaction with important dignitaries and men of letters of his time. It is demonstrated that his public image varied according to the specific circumstances in which he acted. Representing himself as the obsequious interpreter of the overseas deeds of his kingdom, the persuasive diplomat ready to interfere in the literary and religious quarrels of the time, and as the expert capable of presenting himself as a scholar worthy of imitation and future emulation, Góis sought to intertwine the praise of the crown to the recognition of his own prestige, hoping thereby to tie his destiny to the immortality then providentially associated with the Portuguese kingdom.
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Keywords
- Damiao de Góis
- Humanism
- Portuguese
- rhetoric of immortality
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DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1530-1Editions