Girolamo Franchi di Conestaggio
Biografie1530 - 1616
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Gerolamo Franchi di Conestaggio (c. 1530, Genoa – c. 1616/1617, Genoa), also called Hieronymus Conestagius, was a Genoese merchant and scholar, who lived most times at Antwerp. He became a member of the Academia dei Confusi, a literary circle guided by Schiappalaria, founded in 1552 at Antwerp.
In 1576 he moved to Lisbon, where he stayed till 1580, the year in which Portugal was annexed by Spain. Conestaggio used the events in Portugal, to which he was an eyewitness, in his book Dell’ unione del regno di Portogallo alla corona di Castiglia (History of the union of the kingdom of Portugal to the Crown of Castile), published at Genoa in 1585. This work betrays Conestaggio’s aversion to Spain. This book gives an extensive chronological history of the Portugese empire from its beginnings to the 1580s, including information about Portugese relations with the Moors in Africa. A French translation of this work by Thomas Nardin was published at Besançon in 1596, entitled L’Union du royaume de Portugal à la Couronne de Castille.
In 1576 he moved to Lisbon, where he stayed till 1580, the year in which Portugal was annexed by Spain. Conestaggio used the events in Portugal, to which he was an eyewitness, in his book Dell’ unione del regno di Portogallo alla corona di Castiglia (History of the union of the kingdom of Portugal to the Crown of Castile), published at Genoa in 1585. This work betrays Conestaggio’s aversion to Spain. This book gives an extensive chronological history of the Portugese empire from its beginnings to the 1580s, including information about Portugese relations with the Moors in Africa. A French translation of this work by Thomas Nardin was published at Besançon in 1596, entitled L’Union du royaume de Portugal à la Couronne de Castille.
