BARRIOS, MIGUEL (DANIEL LEVI) DE.

A work composed in honor of Dom Sancho Manoel, Count of Villaflor. It includes contributions in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin by several authors, including poetry of Marrano poet Miguel de Barrios. Especially noteworthy is Barrios’s Palacio de la Sabiduria (Palace of Knowledge) on concluding pages 209-236, a sprawling epic poem in praise of Lusitania, i.e., Portugal. Other characters in Barrios’ poem relate directly to Jewish mystical literature: The Angels Kaphziel, Michael, Samael, Raphael, Gabriel, Zadkiel and Hanael. Besides this particular contribution by Barrios, there are others spread throughout the volume. (See the page facing p.1 and p. 384 [signed D.M.D.B. for “de Miguel de Barrios”] of first pagination; and pp. 2, 27,159,183-4,193, 200 of second pagination). Jonathan Schorsch observes: “In a poem celebrating an important Portuguese military victory of 1663 and dedicated to the Count of Villaflor, Barrios rehearses the history of Portuguese military triumphs and lauds ‘the Portuguese paradise.’” See Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerinidians in the Seventeenth Century (2009) p. 341, n.11.