Resumen de Poesia na Baía quinhentista: os desconhecidos versos de Bartolomeu Fragoso
Bartolomeu Fragoso is known form several "denunciations" and "confessions" made during the Visitação do Santo Ofício de Lisboa às partes da Bahia e Pernambuco (1591-1595). He was a young graduate and master of arts by the College of Baía, the city where he lived. The study of Fragoso's individual case by the Inquisition has made it possible to know what his "faults" were (as well as those of the other defendants), according to the inquiries made by Heitor Furtado de Mendonça (which represents a useful contribution to the reconstitution of the social and cultural milieu of Baía); a study of this case also allows us, more specifically, to identify the intellectual and literary leanings of this ex-student, questioned by the "Mesa" as they were verbalized and externalized.
After the defendant's arrest, his papers were taken. Among the latter were some original poems, which he intended to diffuse in Baía and in Lisbon. We make them available here for further study by historians of Portuguese literature.
