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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Sierra Leone and the Grand Duke of Tuscany
Authors:Hair, Paul E.H.ISNI
Davies, Jonathan D.ISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:History in Africa
Volume:20
Pages:61-69
Language:English
Geographic terms:Sierra Leone
Portugal
Italy
Subjects:colonial conquest
foreign intervention
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171965
Abstract:In 1606 Philip II of Portugal (and III of Spain) granted to a faithful court official, the Portuguese nobleman Pedro Álvares Pereira, the captaincy of Sierra Leone in Guinea, subject to his establishing an effective settlement there. In 1609 an attempt was made to buy Sierra Leone from Pedro Álvares Pereira, the would-be purchaser being the Grand Duke of Tuscany. This article gives an explanation of this unlikely Italian intervention in the affairs of the world empire of the ruler of Spain and Portugal on the basis of newly discovered Italian documents in the State archives at Florence. Notes, ref.
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