ABSTRACT
This article adresses impious and seditious discourses that circulated in Portugal during the 1790s. Going beyond the textual corpus of forbidden books which is considered classic nowadays, the article aims to further the understanding of writings that have been framed as constitutive of political sedition universe. In order to do it, two specific cases were selected: the first one concerns the publication of the book Medicina Theologica, by Caetano Dragazzi; the second one refers to the manuscripts written by Joaquim José Pedro da Veiga. Both were arrested and considered seditious because of their ideas on religion. Even though few scholars have paid attention to them, these two cases reveal not only the fears of the royal authorities about certain discourses, but also some of the debates and concerns that characterized the Lusitanic reality at the end of the eighteenth century.
Keywords:
Political Sedition; Forbidden Books; Medicina Theologica; Enlightenment in Portugal; History of Political Speech