Italianos estantes em Portugal (séculos XIV-XVIII)

31.12.2007

Project status

concluded

Execution period

2005-2008

REF

POCI/HAR/61896/2004

Main research unit

Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

Principal Investigator

António Marques de Almeida (ULisboa)

Research team

Ana Paulo Mendes Pinto (ULisboa), Florbela Cristina Veiga Frade (ULisboa), Miguel José Rodrigues Lourenço (ULisboa), Susana Rute de Oliveira Soares Bastos Mateus (ULisboa)

Project fellows

Miguel José Rodrigues Lourenço (ULisboa), Carla Cristina da Costa Vieira (ULisboa)

This project aims to collecting and systematizing the bio-bibliographic materials concerning the most prominent elements of the Italian communities that lived in Portugal between the 14th and the 18th centuries. The chief end product of this research will be the publication of a dictionary. Through the consultation of bibliographic and other sources, published and unpublished, held in Italian and Portuguese archives, this project aims to systematise the information relative to biographic itineraries of the Italians who carried out their activities in the Portuguese kingdom, or who circulated on the major international routes in which Portuguese goods and interests also flowed. Despite the considerable collection of works published in Portugal, and also in Italy, on the Italian communities residing within Portuguese territories, much of which is composed of biographical studies of a few prominent Italians for their knowledge in the various fields of scientific inquiry (nautical, cartographic, commercial, artistic, among others), further research remains to be done, particularly in the archives, as well as the task of providing a credible and systematic form to the information already available.