| Summary: | In 1630, after he got a vast experience as a priest and commissioner of the Inquisition in the viceroyalty of Peru, Lorenzo de Mendoza arrive at court, where he printed several memorials addressed to Philip IV, all of them implying a common vision of a global, integrated and stable empire. This vision of the monarchy laid mainly in three points: the place Portuguese and other subjects of the monarch had to occupy in front of the Castellans, the protection of the indigenes and the protection of silver shipment that arrived every year with the fleet.For these statements, he was named episcopal prelate of Rio de Janeiro, here he tried to put into practice his integrating ideas. Nevertheless, the strong reaction of the Portuguese colonial oligarchies obliged him to come back soon to Madrid, a few years later. There, he told everything had happened to him in a new series of memorials. The comparative analysis of these texts brings a new perspective on the problematical integration of the Portuguese and Castellan colonies during the moment of the Iberian Union.
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