“THE LIFE OF DOM FREI BARTOLOMEU DOS MÁRTIRES” BY LUÍS DE SOUSA: THE IDEOLOGICAL AND STYLISTIC SEARCH

Abstract

The article examines the biographical chronicle of a Portuguese writer Luís de Sousa “The Life of Dom Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires” (1619), created in the period of the transition from Mannerism to Baroque in Ibero-Roman literature. The article focuses on the creative history of this work, and also examines the evolution of aesthetic principles formed in the Portuguese historiography of the Renaissance and early modern times, and the linguistic & stylistic methods of influencing to the readers, which was used by Luís de Souza. The article includes citations, confirming that Luís de Souza sought not only to create an individual psychological portrait of his character, but also to paint a panorama of everyday life in the North of Portugal. The article also includes the analysis of the possible influence of the aesthetics of conceptism and the problem of linguistic interference in Portuguese Renaissance and Baroque literature. The author of the article analyses the possible polemics between the author of “The Life of Dom Frei Bartolomeu dos Mártires” and authors of the historiographic school of Alcobaça, who proposed their interpretation of Portuguese history in the first half of the 17th century.