Messianism

Author: António Vieira (1608–1697)

Title: História do Futuro

Place of publication: Lisbon

Year: 1718

Time of creation: circa 1650/1670

Exact bibliographic reference: Antonio Vieyra: Historia do Futuro. Livro anteprimeyro prologomeno a toda a Historia do Futuro, em que se declara o fim, & seprovaõ os fundamentos della. Materia, verdade, & utilidades da Historia do Futuro, Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Pedrozo Galram 1718

Description: Antonio Vieira’s »History of the Future«, was the first utopian text written in Portguese and the most important manifestation of Lusitanian Sebastianism. The messianic and millenarian treatise, based on Daniel and the Book of Revelation, envisions the Fifth Empire (Quinto Império), a global Portuguese monarchy with spiritual and temporal power governed by the house of Bragança.

Critical edition: António Vieira: História do futuro (Livro Anteprimeiro), ed. by José van den Besselaar, 2 vol., Münster: Aschendorff 1976 (= Portugiesische Forschungen der Görres-Gesellschaft 3-1,2)Vol. 1: Bibliografia, introdução e textoVol. 2: Comentário

Studies: J[oão] Lucio d’Azevedo: Historia de Antonio Vieira. Com factos e documentos novos, 2 vol., Lisbon: Livraria Clássica Editora de A.M. Teixeira 1918,1920 ¶ Ana T. Valdez: Vieira Between History of the Future and Clavis Prophetarum, in: Visions, Prophecies and Divinations. Early Modern Messianism and Millenarianism in Iberian America, Spain and Portugal, ed. by Luís Filipe Silvério Lima and Ana Paula Torres Megiani, Leiden / Boston: Brill 2016

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