Doubts and clarification about a figure from the time of the Philippine Dual Monarchy almost unknown in Portugal: Constantino de Vasconcelos (ca 1600-1668)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14195/2184-7681_52_5Keywords:
Leitão, Constantino, ca 1600-1668, Leitão, Constantino Vasconcelos, ca 1600-1668, presumed name, Portuguese Anthroponymy, Spain, 17th century, Silveira, Miguel de, ca 1580-ca 1640, Vasconcelos, Constantino de, ca 1600-1668, Vasconcelos, Constantino Leitão de, ca 1600-1668, presumed name, Vera y Figueroa, Juan Antonio de, 1588-1658Abstract
Constantino de Vasconcelos, born in the city of Braga (or in that region), in the early 17th century – who came to be famous, at the time of the dual Philippine Crown, in territories that today constitute Peru, Bolivia and Chile, both in the area of mining exploration and as an architect – remains, despite everything, a virtually unknown figure in Portugal. The proof of this is that none of the three relatively recent biographies of Filipe I, Filipe II and Filipe III, makes any mention of his artistic, scientific and military achievements in Latin America (this despite the studies already carried out at the North American university at Yale and at the Royal Academy of Spanish History). Although, much continues to be unknown of his life and artistic action in the lands of Peru, in this study it proceeds to number several doubts and successes regarding the first phase of his Iberian activity and of some of his contemporaries, both in Portugal as in Spain, between the beginning of that century and the year 1629, the year of his departure for the Philippine Viceroyalty.
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