Obra Completa Pombalina. Volume 1: Escritos de Inglaterra (1738-1739). Tomo I: Escritos de Inglaterra (1738-1743)
It is well known the historical importance of Marquês de Pombal and his political and diplomatic actions, which made him one of the most remarkable Portuguese politicians with a high international profile. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, diplomat of the Portuguese court to the English and Austria...
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Coimbra University Press
2025
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| Online adgang: | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/169221 |
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| Summary: | It is well known the historical importance of Marquês de Pombal and his political and diplomatic actions, which made him one of the most remarkable Portuguese politicians with a high international profile. Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, diplomat of the Portuguese court to the English and Austrian courts, and later Prime Minister of D. José I, bequeathed to posterity a vast body of work written by him or directly inspired by him. Few projects will have a greater capacity to renew knowledge of a nation';s past than those that set out to collect and edit the writings and work of its most important protagonists. Besides being of great cultural service, bringing to the public domain a heritage buried in the archives, they make it possible to build historical knowledge on a foundation of unshakeable solidity, enhancing even more thorough interpretations. This is the aim of this edition';s project: to bring the Corpus Pombalino to the public, by which we mean the work written, prepared or monitored by Marquês de Pombal, a central figure of the Age of Enlightenment, following the example of similar work carried out in the field of the history of the modern age for figures such as Frederick II of Prussia or Cardinal Richelieu. It was therefore urgent to carry out a project of this nature for the case of Marquês de Pombal, creating conditions to clarify the cloudy interpretation that still hangs over this personality so relevant in our history, since it often arouses extreme reactions that are far removed from the serenity of critical tasks. In this first volume of tome I of Obra completa pombalina, dedicated to the diplomatic activity of Sebastião José Carvalho e Melo, the personal and official letters to other diplomats written from his arrival in England in October 1738 until the end of the following year are published. |
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