The Venice edition contains also two shorter papers by Vieira, one entitled “Discurso Demonstrativo,” addressed to a friend, and the other “Discurso Segundo,” addressed to the Regent Dom Pedro. They bear internal evidence of genuineness and the latter is included in the list of De Backer (Bibliothèque des Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, V, 761-2), together with other MS. works of his in favor of the New Christians. A number of such MSS. are preserved in the Public Library of Evora.—Prof. Gottheil in Jewish Quarterly Review, October, 1901, p. 89.
[788] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds italien, 1241, fol. 44.
These official papers relating to the discussion in Rome were brought to Paris by Cardinal d’Estrées, at that time ambassador to the papal court.
[789] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds italien, 1260, fol. 34.
[790] Ibidem, No. 1260, fol. 1, I, §§ 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 24, 34, 36; fol. 34; No. 1241, fol. 34.
[791] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds italien, 1241, fol. 12, 22, 24, 30, 33.
Vieira, in his letter to the Regent Pedro, asserts that of a hundred negativos burnt there was not a single one guilty, and that this must continue so long as the procedure remained unchanged.—Discurso segundo, pp. 136-7.
[792] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds italien, 1241, fol. 8, 9, 23.
[793] Bibl. nationale de France, fonds italien, 1241, fol. 127.
[794] Ibidem, fol. 42, 81, 159.