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BOXER (C. R.). FRANCISCO Vieira de Figueiredo. Gravenhage. 1967. - BOXER (C. R.) FRANCISCO Vieira de Figueiredo . A Portuguese Merchant-Adventurer in South East Asia, 1624-1667. Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967. [8], 118 pp.: il.; 240 mm. A biographical study of Francisco Vieira de Figueiredo (1624-1667), a Portuguese merchant who amassed a fortune and achieved great political influence in Southeast Asia, particularly in Makassar, in the decades following the loss of Malacca to the Dutch (1641). Published in the Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Royal Institute of Linguistics, Geography and Ethnology of the Netherlands), the study traces, based on archival documentation, the trajectory of this merchant-adventurer, a paradigmatic example of the activity of private Portuguese merchants who, outside the official apparatus of the Indian State, maintained an active Portuguese presence in the Indonesian archipelago throughout the 17th century, in direct competition with the Dutch East India Company. A seminal contribution to the study of the Portuguese mercantile presence in Southeast Asia during the decline of the Indian state. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate