Banca de DEFESA: Ramon Gustavo Becker

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STUDENT : Ramon Gustavo Becker
DATE: 02/06/2023
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: PPGHIS - Módulo 24
TITLE:

THE RARITIES OF AUCOURT E PADILHA. The marvelous and the fantastic literature in Portugal in the 18th century

KEY WORDS:

Wonders -Marvelous - Monsters- History of Portugal - Baroque - 18th Century - Written Culture

PAGES: 152
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

The curiosity and the search for explanations of unknown phenomena is a trait present in a great part of the societies. Throughout human History, a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, scholars, religious people and even the “common people” asked themselves about the mystic, symbolic and natural elements of what they considered “wonderful.” The result is a substantial number, if not gigantic, of documents dwelling on the subject, in which are found written works, images, engravings and other accounts of all sorts, inspired by the mixed feeling of curiosity, wonder and even fear. In the present study, we analyze the book As Raridades da Natureza e da Arte, Divididas pelos Quatro Elementos, published in 1759 under de authorship of the Portuguese nobleman Pedro Norberto Aucourt e Padilha. It was published while the Lusitanian Kingdom faced changes in the intellectual and political scene, at the same time that they dealt with the social and material impact of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. This writer, which had already published other works, sought to compile some of the various accounts of the written and oral culture about monsters and wonders in one extensive work. While exploring the five hundred plus pages of the book, we seek to demonstrate not only the perspectives and discourses organized and written by the author. Our purpose is to understand how the tragedy of 1755, accompanied by the 18th century context that favored the study and the written culture, provided an increase in the interest of the Portuguese people to comprehend not only the marvelous and prodigious phenomena, but the organization and behavior of nature and the universe.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1258217 - JONAS WILSON PEGORARO
Externo à Instituição - LUIZ CARLOS VILLALTA - UFMG
Interno - 3044293 - LUIZ CESAR DE SA JUNIOR
Presidente - 1805454 - MARCOS AURELIO DE PAULA PEREIRA