Menasseh ben Israel e Padre Antônio Vieira: um diálogo sobre sonhos e pensamentos proféticos

Abstract

After centuries of fermentation, messianisms and millenarianisms became mature and fizzed during the XVI-XVII centuries across the whole territory in the "Old World" through different characters from different nationalities, having the one that Os Lusíadas was dedicated for as its biggest represent, D. Sebastião. Being him the Encoberto, "Covered Up" already plenty studied and discovered by the modern historiography. This work aims its attention to the "intellectual world" that was rose behind that figure, and exceeded it, more precisely those who helped the prophets to rise the idea of Quinto Imperio ("Fifth Monarchy"), and anointed historical men as Messiah; studying the millenarianism (Christian) as much as the messianism (Judaic), through what might be it's biggest minds, Padre Antônio Vieira, Menasseh ben Israel, and the one that seems to be the intersection point between this two universes, Gonçalo Annes Bandarra, over a meeting and conversations that their both shared during the period that Vieira stayed in Amsterdam.