Evangelising in the storm. Friar bonaventure d’alessano, the ‘restauração’ in portugal and the origins of the congo mission ; Evangelizzare nella tempesta. Fra’ Bonaventura d’Alessano, la ‘Restauração’ in Portogallo e le origini della Missione del Congo

The restoration of Portugal has been one of the most relevant objects of Iberian historiographical studies in the last decades. The study of the events related by the Neapolitan Capuchin Fra’ Bonaventura d’Alessano reconstructs the internal problems of John IV of Bragança and the court of Lisbon and the limits that the reason of State focused on the missionary projection of the Holy See – through Propaganda Fide and the help given by Philip IV of Habsburg in Madrid– in the African continent, being a prologue to Catholic confessional activity in southern Africa and its consolidation despite the Dutch monopoly of the WIC in Angolan and Congolese spaces ; Questo saggio fa parte del progetto Reloj de Indias: la proyección europea en el Atlántico, 1665- 1700 (SI1/PJI/2019-00270), concesso dalla Comunidad de Madrid e l’Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (ricercatrice principale: Cristina Bravo Lozano; membro ricercatore: Roberto Quirós Rosado). Anche, è risultato del progetto FAILURE: Reversing the Genealogies of Unsuccess, 16th-19th Centuries [H2020-MSCA-RISE, Grant agreement: 823998] nel suo WP4. “Unsuccessful polities, from empire to nations, and international relationships” (membri ricercatori: Cristina Bravo Lozano e Roberto Quirós Rosado)