QUEIRÓS (Fernão de). HISTORIA da Vida do Veneravel Irmão Pedro de Basto. Em Lisboa. 1689.

QUEIRÓS (Fernão de). HISTORIA da Vida do Veneravel Irmão Pedro de Basto. Em Lisboa. 1689.

QUEIRÓS (Fernão de)
HISTORIA da Vida do Veneravel Irmão Pedro de Basto. Coadjutor temporal da Companhia de Jesus, e da Variedade de Sucessos que Deos lhe manifestou. Em Lisboa: Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, 1689.

a6, b8, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Ccc6, Ddd4; [28], 594, [2] pp.; 300 mm.

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of one of the most important titles on southern India in the 17th century, particularly Ceylon, addressing the administrative and military problems of Portuguese India, as well as the conflict with the Dutch in that period.
The work deals with the figure of Pedro de Basto, a man of the Society of Jesus famous for his visions and prophecies in Portuguese India. Born in Cabeceira de Basto, the second son of António Machado Barbosa, of the noble Machado family, after his first studies at the seminary in Braga, he left home to “relieve himself of so many horrors, exchanging the countryside and mountains for the help of a people as numerous as those of Lisbon, Court of Portugal, where he had friends from his country who would make fun of him, when he showed so little pain for what his son suffered.” (p. 17 of the text) From there he went to India, serving in Cochin for two years. In 1589, while traveling to Goa, the ship he was traveling on sank and he was the only survivor, making “a vow to God Our Lord to become a Religious in the first Religion, that would welcome him, if it would free him from that danger.” (p. 27 of the text) Despite having abandoned his studies, he was accepted into the Society of Jesus, and died in 1645 after approximately 50 years entirely dedicated to his mission.
Fernando de Queirós, in turn, arrived in India in 1635, having met Pedro de Basto at that time. He later became Provincial of the Society in Goa and, probably on his initiative, the Society ordered Pedro de Basto to write his autobiography. This work, probably based on the testimony of the subject himself, as well as on oral memories transmitted by those who were close to him, is divided into five books. The first deals with the early years of Pedro de Basto's life and the second with his stay in India, with emphasis on the visions, prophecies and revelations of the subject. These are used by Fernão de Queirós to weave extensive and important comments on the political and military structure of the Portuguese State in India. The third book deals almost entirely with the conflict between Portugal and the Dutch in that territory, and the fourth with the loss of Ceylon. The last and final book returns to Pedro Basto and his visions.
 

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