Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

De rios e de mar no De Antiquitatibus Lusitaniae de André de Resende

2020; Volume: 05; Linguagem: Inglês

10.53943/elcv.0220_04

2184-4097

Inês de Ornelas e Castro,

Linguistics and Language Studies

André de Resende’s De Antiquitatibus Lusitaniae (1593), one of the most notable works of Portuguese Humanism, reveals the erudition of an antiquarian, pioneer in Archaeology and Epigraphy with a deep domain of classical, philosophical, theological and Biblical texts. He investigated in an original way how Portugal had born and grew. When pointing out history in the space, he was rigorous in Geography. In the dispersed references on agriculture and cattle, and especially in the 2nd book dedicated to the rivers and respective fish fauna, the focus of our reflection, he discloses to an implicit knowledge of his own time hygienists theories, revealed in the interdependence between environment, man and food. The original Latin text confrontation with medical works allowed us to find indications of an humoural matrix speech.