""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""A Note on Portuguese Orthography, Currency, and the Inquisition""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 Setting the Stage for an Experiential Microhistory""; ""2 In the Name of the Holy Office: Comissários in Pernambuco""; ""3 A Life and Career in Focus""; ""4 A Plague of Bigamy""; ""5 Of Libertines and Diabolical Doctrines""; ""6 Suspended in the Agony of Decay""; ""7 The Zeal of the Pharisee""; ""8 The End of an Era � The End of a Career""; ""Appendix: Comissários from the Bishopric of Pernambuco, 1692�1821""; ""Notes""
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Summary
Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil