THE INQUISITION AND ROMANES FAGUNDES DO AMARAL: A RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE AND HATE

Abstract

This paper aims to disseminate the criminal proceedings against Amaral Romao Fagundes, a resident of Sao Joao del Rei in Minas Gerais and denounced to the Inquisition in 1795 accused of uttering heretical words, following the Enlightenment ideas and live in debauchery. Farmer lot of power, wrote poems and sonnets attacking the image of the Church and its members had a hand amputated by locals who could not but their way of depraved life. But due to so many trials because it took so long to be arrested? There was a game of interest? Your process does not contain a sentence, but due to my research, I show that ultimately led Romao Fagundes do Amaral, the "Poet of Sierra Rear and its relationship with the Inquisition in Brazil.