PT | EN | ES

Main Menu


Powered by <TEI:TOK>
Maarten Janssen, 2014-

Facsimile view

[1770-1772]. Carta de Tomásia Isabel Gonzaga, filha de desembargador, para Bernardo da Silva do Amaral, padre.

Author(s) Tomásia Isabel Gonzaga      
Addressee(s) Bernardo da Silva do Amaral      
In English

Regret letter from Tomásia Isabel Gonzaga, the daughter of a judge, to Bernardo da Silva do Amaral, a priest.

The author regrets her separation from the addressee.

Father Bernardo da Silva Amaral was a priest who lived in Pernambuco (Brazil), although he was born in Lisbon. He was arrested in Recife in 1772, when he was 46 years old, under the suspicion of having made heretic propositions and of abusing women ("solicitação"). Several women testified against him. They said he used to teach that neither kisses, hugs or caresses were sins, they were rather a way of serving God, so he kissed, hugged and caressed them. He was accused of going to bed with several of them, sometimes mother and daughter at the same time, and was also seen bathing with them. Most of the private letters used as exhibits against him were exchanged between this priest and the mother and daughter pair. The letters exchanged with the mother are partly in cipher, but the court could not force the defendant to explain how to decode them.

If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

Page 32r

Meo estimado Pay desta porbe alma olhe Pay e sr meo que lhe confeço que ja não so quem de ante ella, q ja e triste me vejo pois em tudo tenho desobeçido aos mandados de vmce e ja me vejo em outro poder em caza de Paes e mais sem poder me ditriminal cazo algũm em vendo tam e tantas miziria e desanimada pa tudo que lhe digo me não co-nheso e nem poso escerver a vmce que na-o espilicar a vmce em grande corBadia em que esto posta e q não seja sera a vonta-de De Deos s eu more nesta mata pro es e os meos co não quere q eu va mas para o cabo meo Pay eu não esto capas para nada so te peco me não dexe de pedires bem bem a Deos por esta tam grande e mizerave peccador ma Lcas sra todas minhas irmãs e tambem a sra Anna que peca bem bem a Deos por mim que esto mto nicitada, mto mto mto seja pelo amor de Deos olhe meo sr esto mto desaparada e ma Mayzinha tenho do de mim e Deos aDeos aDeos aDeos q mto custa esta ozencia s eu subera q esta ela a ventade de Deos mto contente estava neste tabalhos mas suponho não ser isto do seo agrado valhame a chagas de jesus



Text viewWordcloudManuscript line viewPageflow viewSentence view