Os agentes do tabaco e a mobilidade ibérica. Brasil, Indias de Castela e conexões italianas (séculos XVII e XVIII)

Authors

  • João FIGUEIROA-REGO

Keywords:

tobacco, geographic mobility, Italian merchants, new Christians

Abstract

The geographic mobility of Iberian families to Brazil, as well as the solidarity networks and interests boosted by them in the Italian peninsula, was an early reality. It is known that many were New Christians and departed in order to disguise Jewish origins. However they preserved their ethnic identity and traditional cultural values easily recognized by the Inquisition. The aim of this paper is emphasize the intense transcontinental role played by those kinsfolk (a mixed of fugitives and merchants) as well the networks they built all around.

Published

2014-12-31

Issue

Section

DOSSIER - L’emigrazione italiana e portoghese in Brasile e altri Paesi dell’America Latina in età moderna e contemp.