Italian Merchants in Habsburg Portugal (1580-1640)

  • Nunziatella Alessandrini CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1069-061 Lisboa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7410/1512
Keywords: Italian Merchants, Dual Monarchy, Portugal, Lisbon, Mercadores italianos, Monarquia dual, Lisboa

Abstract

The study of the presence of foreign communities in Lisbon during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not yet properly studied, despite the undeniable key role they had in the development of the Lusitanian economy. The present contribution aims at reconstructing the path and the activity of Italian merchants in the Portuguese capital. The chosen chronological frame are the years of the Dual Monarchy (1580-1640). The objective is to present new research clues that may contribute to deepen political and social dynamics in a time that was deeply significant for the Portuguese Kingdom. 

O estudo da presença de comunidades estrangeiras em Lisboa nos séculos XVI e XVII não está ainda devidamente aprofundado, não obstante o inegável marco que estas tiveram no desenvolvimento da economia lusitana. O presente contributo visa reconstruir o percurso e a actividade de mercadores italianos na capital portuguesa tendo como  balizas temporais os anos da Monarquia Dual (1580-1640) no intuito de apresentar novas pistas de investigação que possam contribuir para aprofundar dinâmicas políticas e sociais numa altura profundamente marcante para o Reino português.

Author Biography

Nunziatella Alessandrini, CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1069-061 Lisboa

Nunziatella Alessandrini holds a PhD in Early Modern History awarded by the Universidade Aberta of Lisbon. Currently. At present, she is an Assistant Professor at CHAM (Centre for the Humanities) research unit of the Nova University of Lisbon. She is also the coordinator of the Research Group “Economies, Societies and Mercantile Cultures”, and the author of more than 40 journal articles about the Italian presence in Portugal; and 9 books dedicated to the economic, social, diplomatic and cultural relations between Early Modern Italy and Portugal. She is an associated member at the Academia de Marinha (Maritime History group) and director of the archive of Nossa Senhora do Loreto church in Lisbon.

Published
2021-12-31
Issue
Vol. 9/II n.s. (December 2021)
Section
RiMe 9/II n.s. (December 2021). Special Issue
Copyright (c) 2021 Nunziatella Alessandrini

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