O ilustre humanista Fernão Lopes Milão e as tentativas de fuga da sua família para Hamburgo

Abstract

The wealthy New Christian family Milão gained several royal contracts, providing for many decades significant input to the Portuguese economy. Fernão Lopes Milão was a polyglot that wrote, even under prison, several treaties on the topics of good governance and mathematics applied to the Holy Scriptures. He knew exact dates, the measurements of the Temple of Solomon and of the Ark of the Covenant. This Portuguese humanist was a pupil of Lavanha and of Father Manuel Correia, a Latinist and Hebraist friend of Luís de Camões. He corresponded with Lorenzo Ramirez de Prado, Martin de los Rios and Justus Lipsius on the translation to Portuguese of Tacitus's Annales. His confinement under the Inquisition wiped from the collective memory all of Milão's literary works. However, currently the Holy Office archive is public, which permits the reconstruction of part of the literary and cultural reality during Portuguese Renaissance.