Talk:Uriel da Costa

message: As far as I remember, it's d'Acosta, though I could be wrong. Danny
apparently there are multiple spellings of his name in common use... Acosta, d'Acosta, some other one as well (da Costa or something like that...)
He signed his own name as "daCosta" (we have a sample from a synagogue register.)  The Costa part is the main part, since it means "coast" in Portuguese.  Thus the confusion about da, d', and a. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.172.169.20 (talk) 10 Feb 2006
Ł== date of birth ==
What is the source on that date of birth? Israil Bercovici, in a footnote about Gutzkow's play about Uriel Acosta says 1590. Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă. Editura Integral (an imprint of Editurile Universala), Bucharest (1998). . Note is on p. 102. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:05, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
I deleted the reference mentioning his being born about 1591, which was too vague and doesn't agree with other sources. I added a reference to the Portuguese language encyclopedia which gives a fairly detailed discussion about this person's life.Bartam (talk) 05:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "…had converted from Judaism to Catholicism in order to avoid the persecutions of the Inquisition." Presumably based on a misconception. The Inquisition had authority only over professing Christians, so converting from Judaism to Catholicism would place one under their authority, rather than removing one from it. Presumably the conversion would have been to escape persecution by civil authorities. I am changing the article accordingly. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:33, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inquisition 

message: Similarly, and I don't know how to resolve this one: they can't be both "Marranos" and sincerely "devoutly religious" Roman Catholics. "Marranos" are insincerely converted Jews (or their descendants) who profess Catholicism while practicing Judaism in secret. Sincere conversos and their descendents—Teresa of Ávila, for example— are not Marranos. So which is it? -- Jmabel | Talk 21:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Marrano

message: There is currently no article on Da Costa's autobiography itself - Examplar Humanae Vitae. It may warrant an article of is own. ?
Nickyfann (talk) 17:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate Article for Exemplar Humanae Vitae 

message: I added the name of the author of the article, The Tragic Life of Uriel da Costa.Bartam (talk) 19:00, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

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message: Darksider asks:
I apologize, but does this picture really show a young Jewish student boy being taught a philosophical cleverness by an older master, or is it just some bad joke?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.131.86.49 (talk) 00:11, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I know nothing about the artist or his intentions, but it purportedly depicts da Costa and the young Spinoza, which Spinoza biographer Steven Nadler flatly rejects, calling it "pure fantasy." See Nadler's Spinoza, A Life. Second edition, p. 84. Amuseclio (talk) 23:42, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: All the changes made recently are mostly cosmetic, nothing very crucial, in my view. I won't get into an "edit war" over the current version. But I don't see any non-native language problems with the version that was suggested recently (by ), and that was reverted today. But the ending of the lede right now uses the term "Saint Church," which is wikilinked to the Catholic Church. This is a completely non-standard way of referring to the Catholic Church, it is uncommon (really unheard of) in the historical sources I know, and it should be changed. If the IP editor that first changed the article today or the other new user that came back defending the original version do not reply, I will start making the changes again, one by one. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 22:22, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The best latest revision was reverted