This project follows the research project Dicionário dos Italianos Estantes em Portugal [Dictionary of the Italians living in Portugal], funded by the government through the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Ref. POCI/61869/2004) based on the “Alberto Benveniste” Chair in Sephardic Studies of the University of Lisbon. It also integrates the cycle of conferences of Luso-Italian Relations, currently in its fourth edition, and co-organized by CHAM and the "Alberto Benveniste” Chair.
In this first stage (June, 2014 - September, 2015) the project will focus on the biographies of Italian merchants, businessmen and seafarers present in Portugal between the 15th and 18th centuries.
Through a careful update of content and bibliography, as well as a significant expansion of the universe of the biographed subjects, in light of the most recent historiographical contributions on the subject, the projects intends to transform the product of the Dictionary in an key tool for researchers of early modern history, the various fields of economic and social history and for all interested in the relations between Portugal and Italy throughout the early modern period.
Goals
Through a careful update of content and bibliography, as well as a significant expansion of the universe of the biographed subjects, in light of the most recent historiographical contributions on the subject, the projects intends to transform the product of the Dictionary in an key tool for researchers of early modern history, the various fields of economic and social history and for all interested in the relations between Portugal and Italy throughout the early modern period.
Start: 2014
Duration: 12 months
Principal Investigators: Nunziatella Alessandrini (CHAM) / Susana Bastos Mateus (Cátedra Alberto Benveniste)
Funding
- Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas «Alberto Benveniste»
Host Institution
- Faculdade de Letras / Universidade de Lisboa
Main Research Unit
- Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas «Alberto Benveniste»
Sponsors
- Embaixada de Itália
- Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Lisboa
Partnerships
- Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar / Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas/Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Universidade dos Açores
