A pregação da virtude em Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso

Abstract

In the sixteenth century, in Portugal, Gonçalo Fernandes Trancoso writes his Contos e Histórias de Proveito & Exemplo with pedagogical-moralizing intent, disillusioned at the dissolution of the customs brought by the overseas conquests. The author makes use of a resource of the medieval era - the exempla - to show himself as a champion that fights for the values of the Virtue. The purpose of this article is to analyze how the author mounts his preaching stories by analyzing the narrative techniques used to show how these stories have become a pleasurable and uplifting reading