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CORTESÃO (Jaime). ALXANDRE de Gusmão e o Tratado de Madrid. Lisboa. 1950. - CORTESÃO (Jaime) ALXANDRE de Gusmão e o Tratado de Madrid . Conferência pronunciada no Rio de Janeiro no Palácio das Relações Exteriores (Itamarati) em Setembro de 1949. Lisboa: Seara Nova, 1950. 40 pp.; 195 mm. Text of the lecture given by Jaime Cortesão at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio de Janeiro in September 1949, revisiting the theme that would give rise to his monumental work, in several volumes, Alexandre de Gusmão and the Treaty of Madrid (Rio de Janeiro: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1950-1956). It addresses the role of diplomat Alexandre de Gusmão in negotiating the Treaty of Madrid (1750), which established the borders between Portuguese and Spanish domains in South America according to the principle of uti possidetis , replacing the Tordesillas line and enshrining the Luso-Brazilian territorial expansion throughout the previous centuries. A preliminary summary of one of the central themes of Cortesão's later work on the territorial formation of Brazil, preceding by about a year the start of the major documentary edition on the subject. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate