On the occasion of the publication of the new book Salvador de Bahía 1625. The “Day of Brazil” in the news, relations and theatre, this afternoon at 6 p.m., the Fundación Carlos de Amberes presents the discussion 1625 – The “Day of Brazil” and its enormous media impact. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
The new work will be presented by several of its authors and a question and answer session will be open to the public. Speakers will include José Manuel Santos Pérez, Ceb – University of Salamanca; Irene María Vicente Martín Mias, Casa de Velázquez, and Bernardo J. García García, Complutense University of Madrid-ITEM.
This volume, which focuses on the Dutch conquest of 1624 and the Portuguese-Spanish recovery of Salvador de Bahía in 1625, is the second in the collection El salón de Reinos en las noticias y el teatro. It provides the reader with a rigorous and contextualised view of how the news was received and reinterpreted through the accounts, printed or manuscript, that were disseminated at the time and their subsequent representation in theatrical and pictorial fiction.
In the first part, José Manuel Santos Pérez and Irene María Vicente Martín situate the event in the international panorama, marked by the resumption of Spanish-Dutch hostilities in the Atlantic, and in the local sphere, determined by the growing geopolitical importance of Brazil and, more specifically, El Salvador, in the complex territorial framework of the Hispanic Monarchy. It also includes the most complete list of the relations of events, both Dutch and Portuguese-Spanish, of the events of 1624-1625, and critical editions of the most significant ones. For his part, Enrique Rodrigues-Moura edits and analyses two of the plays that were written and performed about those annus mirabilis victories of 1625, El Brasil restituido, by Lope de Vega, and Pérdida y restauración de la Bahía de Todos Santos, by Juan Antonio Correa. Lope de Vega finished his comedy in October 1625, a few days before the arrival of the main body of the fleet in Cadiz, using some of those relations.
