UMA DISCRETA CONTROVÉRSIA? Acerca de duas licenças presentes na História da América Portuguesa de Rocha Pitta

Abstract

This article undertakes an interpretative exercise regarding two publishing licenses present in Sebastiao da Rocha Pitta’s Historia da America Portuguesa (“History of Portuguese America” ). Said licenses were written by Antonio Rodrigues da Costa and D. Antonio Caetano de Souza (members of the Royal Academy of Portuguese History). Looking at these textual constructions, we analyze the approval process of the work in question, in an attempt to understand the expectations of adequacy of historiographic prose within the sphere of  the Royal Academy of Portuguese History.