António Cordeiro de Espinosa (Antonius Cordeyro) was born in Angra do Heroísmo (island of Terceira, Azores) before August 12, 1640 (see Rosa 2001: 101). This is an important year in Portuguese history because in the first day of December a revolution that definitively expells the Spanish crown from the country and inaugurates the fourth Dynasty, the Braganças Dynasty, breaks out. The following three points may be evoked as regards the relation of Portuguese intellectuals, the Society of Jesus and Universities with that revolution. First, the name of the Eremite of Saint Augustine, Filipe Moreira, whom in 1640 owns the Chair of Prima in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Coimbra, and delivers a solemn speech on behalf of the entire don's cloister, saluting King John IV, as a pledged of the Portuguese University to the new and ambitioned political situation. Secondly, Francisco Soares de Alarcão (a.k.a. Francisco Soares Lusitano), who is to be known for the composition of an impressive philosophical course (1651) that will leave its mark on Cordeiro, profers a similar eulogy at the Jesuit University of Évora. Finally, in what is perhaps the best known of Cordeiro's books, the História Insulana, Cordeiro unequivocally dwells on this revolution (Rosa 2001; Mancia 2001). In two of his titles, Cordeiro (1717 and 1719) left some indications related to his biography. Being the sixth and last son of Manuel Cordeiro Moutoso and Maria Espinoza, António Cordeiro spends his youth in his native island and studies in the Jesuit College of Angra do Heroísmo. The first College had been founded in the island of Terceira in 1569 by King Sebastian. Already in 1570, its first members were Luís de Vasconcelos, rector and master of cases; the preachers Pedro Gómez and Baltasar Barreira; and the teachers of the first (Rhetoric) and second (Latin) classes, Pedro Freire e Sebastião Álvares, respectively.