Categoria: Sefarads
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Diego Velázquez – A Portrait Between Porto Roots and Seville Colors
Son of João Rodrigues da Silva, a noble lawyer born on the banks of the Douro, Velázquez saw the light…
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Uriel da Costa – the Quest for Intellectual Freedom
Uriel da Costa, a 17th-century Portuguese-Jewish thinker, surfaced in an era rife with societal and religious upheaval.
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Bento de Espinosa – The Porto Ancestry and the Restless Philosophy
Bento de Espinosa, or Baruch Espinosa, emerges from the mist of centuries as a thinker whose Porto ancestry shaped the obscure lines of his philosophy.