Resumen de Diogo Soares ou l'union des couronnes
- English
The political biography of Diogo Soares deserves to be better known. According to the Portuguese patriotic tradition, however, the life of Diogo Soares is a perfect example of the difficulties experienced during the period known as the union of crowns. As Secretary of State of the Council of Portugala, Soares had so high a profile that he has come to be taken for granted and overlooked. This biographical study hightlights two basic features of the career of this powerful Minister. On the one hand, he was no upstart, but an Ancien Régime officer, following the military tradition of his family. On the other hand, his political career is a collective adventure, mobilizing and organizing a complex and changing network of Portuguese and Castilian personalities of the period. The method used by the biographer is that of carefully checking the veracity of accusations made against Soares by his contemporaries and by later historians. But in doing so he also reveals the importance of the social and political configurations that give meaning to individual careers.
- français
La biographie politique de Diogo Soares est assez méconnue alors que ce personnage incarne, pour la tradition patriotique portugaise, tous les travers de la période d'union des couronnes. Le secrétaire d'État du Conseil de Portugal était si visible qu'on a fini par ne plus le voir. L'enquête biographique proposée par l'auteur souligne deux traits essentiels de la carrière de ce puissant ministre. D'une part, il ne s'agit pas d'un parvenu mais d'un officier d'Ancien Régime appartenant à une famille d'officiers portugais. D'autre part, son évolution politique est une aventure collective qui mobilise et structure un réseau complexe et mouvant de personnalités portugaises et castillanes de son temps. La démarche du biographe consiste à vérifier, en tous points, la véracité des procès que ses contemporains et l'historiographie postérieure lui ont faits. Chemin faisant, on découvre la complexité d'un homme à travers les configurations sociales et politiques dans lesquelles sa trajectoire individuelle prend sens.
- português
A biografia política de Diogo Soares é bastante mal conhecida embora esta personagem represente, para a tradiçâo patriótica portuguesa, todos os defectos do período de uniâo das coroas. O secretário de Estado era tâo visible que acabou por se tornar invisible. A investigaçâo biográfica proposta pelo autor sublinha dois aspectos essenciais da carreira deste poderoso ministro. Por um lado, nâo se trata de um arrivista mas de um oficial do Antigo Regime pertencente a uma familia de oficiais portugueses. Por outro lado, é uma aventura colectiva que mobiliza e estructura uma rede complexa e movediza de personalidades portuguesas e castelhanas do seu tempo. A perspectivado biógrafo consiste em verificar detalhamente a veracidade dos processos que os seus contemporâneos e historiografia posterior lhe fizeram. Ao mesmo tempo, descobrimos a complexidade de um homem a través das configuraÇôes sociais e políticas em que ganha sentido a sua trajectória individual.
