A retórica da citação na Imagem da Vida Cristã, de Frei Heitor Pinto

• Autor(a) principal: Fardilha, Luís de Sá
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/110483
• topic: Humanidades; Humanities

Friar Heitor Pinto elaborated and had published his Imagem da vida cristã when the control of the reading and the censorship on the printed works were accentuated, following the decisions taken by the Council of Trent. In 1559, four years before the first edition of the First Part, the Bishop of Coimbra D. João Soares ordered the printing of the Index auctorum et librorum by Pope Paul IV, a clear sign of hardening against readings and authors considered appealable to corrupt the sound Catholic orthodoxy. In this context, the words in which the author renounces any originality in his text can easily be understood as both an affirmation of fidelity to the approved doctrine of Sacred Scripture and the excellent authors he quotes, as well as a prevention against possible charges of forcible recklessness. However, if we frame the recurrent use of the quotation - practiced in its most diverse forms - in the deeper roots of the spirituality that the work reflects, it becomes possible to argue that the option for the discourse of others by the Jerome friar is no more than a rhetorical representation of the individual demotion imposed by the ideal of radical humility that persecutes. This will be the rhetorical function that the almost obsessive quotation plays in a work in which the contemptus mundi is a core element of the ideal of Christian life that the author proposes.