Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
BARBOSA MACHADO, DIEGO. - Writer and bibliographer of Portugal, born in Lisbon in 1682, died in the abbey of St. Adrian of Sever in 1772. With his four volumes of the Bibliotheca lusitana historico-critica et chronologica (Lisbon 1741-59), a bio-bibliographical repertory of Portuguese writers, he accomplished work analogous to that of Mazzuchelli for Italian literati.
(from Rivista dell'Ist. di Archeol. e Storia dell'Arte, Rome 1935) BARBO, MARCO - Coat of arms in the vault of the entrance hall of Palazzo Venezia - Rome.He is also the author of the Memorias para a historia de Portugal (ibid. 1736-47). He amassed an extremely rich library and an immense number of portraits. He published against the Jesuits the Carta exhortatoria aos Padres da Companhia de Jesus etc., issued anonymously in 1754 in Amsterdam.
BIBL.: F. De Almeida, s. V. in DHG., VI, coll. 666-67.
Luigi Berra
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“BARBOSA MACHADO, DIEGO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 494. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/barbosa-machado-diego.
