Literatura política portuguesa do século XVII: António Moniz de Carvalho e a soberania do interesse

This paper proposes a comprehensive reading of Francia interessada con Portugal en la separación de Castilla, a treaty published in 1644. Written by António Moniz de Carvalho, it engages with two powerful textual lineages: on one hand, the political literature coined during the process of separation of Portugal from the Spanish Monarchy; and, on the other hand, the new analitycal trend that, following Duke of Rohan’s De l´intérêt des princes et états de la Chrestienté, identifies the interest of the states as the European political order’s effective sovereign. The article states that Henri de Rohan’s work inspires Moniz de Carvalho in the writing of his text. The Portuguese author did not only enriche the rhetorical record of the literature involved in defending the cause of the Bragança, but also formalized one of the first and most unique chapters in the history of the European reception of the work of Rohan.