Carlos Zeron is Professor of History at the University of São Paulo. He also is Director of the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita e José Mindlin, at the same university, and a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana. He was a visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris, at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, and a guest researcher at the Musée du Quai Branly. His publications include: Ligne de foi. La Compagnie de Jésus et l’esclavage dans le processus de formation de la société coloniale en Amérique portugaise (XVIe-XVIIe siècles), Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009 (Port. rev. transl.: São Paulo, Edusp, 2011), “A ocidente do Ocidente: linhas e perspectivas em confronto”, Revista de História, 170 (2014); and “From Farce to Tragedy. António Vieira’s Hubris in a War of Factions”, Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2/3 (2015).