A geografia mítica e real do Atlântico, na visão de Leonardo Torriani

Abstract

In 1584, King Philip II of Portugal invited the Italian militar architect Leonardo Torriani to reorganize the defensive system of the Canary Islands, threatened by English and French privateers and pirates. Torriani remained there until 1593. King Philip II did not limit himself to fulfilling his royal duties. Based on direct observation and on all kinds of written and oral information, he left us the manuscript 314 of the Reserve Section of the General Library of the University of Coimbra, an important documental source of historical, geographical, cartographic, artistic and linguistic nature, illustrated with the most beautiful watercolors.