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Dear Jorge Noronha
You are right: I was in error: there was no parliament. Farias sermon was
delivered, as you point out, in the queens chapel.
Cunha Rivara, in his A Conjuração de 1787 em Goa, p. 88, refers to the
kator re baji episode. Pregava José Custódio pela primeira vez na capela
real, e vendo aí os principais personagens e capacidades do reino,
perturbou-se; ao que o pai, que o for a ouvir oculto debaixo do púlpito,
acudiu em voz que ele ouvisse, dizendo-lhe em lingua de Goa tudo isto é
palha com que o pregador ficou tão animado, que ganhou o desembaraço
necessario, e foi aplaudido o sermão.
Here Rivara seems to suppose that Farias nervousness was due to his being
overwhelmed, not by a feeling of inadequacy at his poor command of the
Portuguese language, but by the dignitaries of the Portuguese court which,
splendid as it was, could hardly compare in majesty with the papal court
held in the Sistine. It is hard to believe that the young Faria was far more
fluent in the immensely complex Ciceronian Latin than in the far simpler
Bocagian Portuguese of the 18th century. He seems to have had little
difficult in writing, in Portuguese, to his to his cousin António João de
Sousa Cancró. At any rate, it is doubtful if, assuming that Faria did not
know Portuguese well, kator re baji would have made him suddenly fluent
in that language.
Rivara also published Farias dedication of queen Maria and her spouse
Peter III [documento no 50: Theologicae propositiones de existentia Dei
&c.]. According to Rivara, Faria arrived in Lisbon, in 1771, a boy of 15,
and soon afterwards left for Rome. Or as Faria himself tells us in that
dedication, Goa, Lusitani Imperii in Orientalibus Indis metropoli, Romam
adulescens venissem [from Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the
Eastern Indies, I came to Rome as a youth]. In that dedication Faria
repeatedly refers to his patron King José (r. 1750-1777; immortali Josephi
I praedecessoris vestri augustissimi beneficio sum consecutus).
As to whether the addressee was Clement XIV or Pius VI, please see my
remarks in Message 1. [There is a little discrepancy here. Luis Vaz says
that the Sistine chapel sermon was published in 1775, when its presumed
author was 19. You say it was delivered when the author was 24, which would
be in 1780.]
José Pereira
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