The inventories of the possessions of Amato Lusitano, Francisco Barbosa and Joseph Molcho fleeing the Inquisition in Ancona (1555)

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, António Manuel Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Crespo, Hugo Miguel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/agora.v0i14.1.9905

The autos-de-fé which took place in Ancona, between April and June 1556, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI, stand out as one of the most tragic episodes of the Sephardic Diaspora in the Italic Peninsula in which about three dozens of Portuguese Jews were slaughtered. The papal commissioners began by confiscating and drawing up an inventory and estimating the possessions of numerous members of the Jewish-ortuguese community, between August and November 1555, shortly after cardinal Carafa ascended to the pontifical solium. Among those whose possessions have been listed (there are 48 extant inventories) one finds the names of two prominent physicians, Amato Lusitano and Francisco Barbosa, and that of an apothecary, Joseph Molcho, one of the martyrs of the autos-de-fé. This study seeks to contextualize these events by focusing on the particular situation experienced by these three personalities of the Portuguese Nation, as well as to provide a thorough analysis of the inventories of their possessions. These inventories, which represent exceptional testimonies of the home and professional environments of these figures of the Jewish‐Portuguese community, allow an intimate knowledge and a privileged access, even if by appro‐ximation, to their activities and personalities, through the type of objects they have chosen or were able to be surrounded by.