The essay presents, in the first part, the Dell'Arte Historica (1636) by Agostino Mascardi and its lettered environment; it translates and comments, in the second part, the most considerable passages from perceptive, in order to establish a description of its doctrine that allows to define, in the third part, the Iberian-Italian ways of the sixteen hundred written of the History in different subdivisions. It's thought to contribute, this way, not only with the reception of the important Dell'Arte Histories by Agostino Mascardi, wich is almost unknown in Brazil, but also to the studies of the historical divisions of the XVII century.
political-theology; rethoric; history; historical genre; Dell' Arte Historica; Agostino Mascardi