The purpose of this article is to discuss the intellectual conventions that guided the writing of the heroic portrait of the humanist João de Barros by Manuel Severim de Faria, in his “Vida de João de Barros, em que se discorre sobre os preceitos da história e perfeição com que escreveu as suas Décadas”, book that integrates his Discursos vários políticos, published in 1624. For this, we consider that the invention of the João de Barros trajectory responds to the demand of an estamental society in which the dignity of the exercised office denotes the dignity of those who exercise the office.
Portugal; Severim de Faria; João de Barros; court