Writings
- Propostas contra a tradição (Portuguese for Propositions against tradition), ca. 1616.
- Exame das tradições farisaicas (Portuguese for Examination of Pharisaic traditions), 1623. Here, da Costa argues that the human soul is not immortal.
- Exemplar humanae vitae (Latin for Example of a human life), 1640.
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