Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2019) 49-69; 22 (2020) 91-111
Keywords:
Bicudo Folgado, Matias
;
Pius
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Crypto-Jews
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Spies History 16th century
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Jews Political activity 16th century
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History
Abstract:
Matias Bicudo Folgado, a Portuguese New Christian living in Cairo, who was hired as a spy by Lourenço Pires de Tavora and the following Portuguese ambassadors in Rome from 1560 to 1570,also provided information services for Pope Pius V and Don Juan of Austria. He conspired in favour of Don Antonio de Portugal in Constantinople from 1584 to 1586, and in Safi (Morocco)since 1586. The intelligence network he proposed consisted of a main spy in Constantinople, two receivers of warnings (one in Ragusa and the other in Naples) and eight mobile agents. Bicudo suggested installing in Constantinople Melchiorre Guilandino, an illustrious professor of medicine in Padua, whom he met in Cairo. Being a native of Wallachia, a vassal principality of the Turk, he would have greater freedom of movement. The latter is an important and previously unknown biographical fact
Note:
Part II: "Sobre cómo explotar el triunfo de Lepanto por vía militar y diplomática".
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