In the seventeenth century, the sermon is the path to the evangelization of Catholicism. Baltazar Gracian, the great theorist of Baroque rhetoric, elaborates the standards for ingenious speech: skill and cleverness with words, a work of reconstruction of language. In his sermons, António Vieira puts ingenuity at the service of a discourse which is inscribed in one of the mythical versions of Portugal: a nation whose people wait to regain the glorious past of the age of Discovery, through the resurrection of Don Sebastian, the king who died in the battle of Alkácer Kibir.
Baroque; delirium; paranoia; Name of the Father