A carreira da malagueta: uso e disseminação das plantas do gênero Capsicum nos séculos XVI e XVII

• Autor(a) principal: dos Santos, Christian Fausto Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Bracht, Fabiano, da Conceição, Gisele Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista IDEAS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistaideas.ufrrj.br/ojs/index.php/ideas/article/view/73
• topic: Discovery Age; Capsicum Genus; East Indies; botanical exchanges; history of Science; Grandes navegações; história da Ciência; intercâmbios botânicos; Índias orientais; gênero Capsicum

From the period of the Age of Discovery, we can observe a phenomenon that had as one of its remarkable characteristics, the spread of the cultivation, commercialization and use of a series of plants. Although currently there is a considerable volume of published works on the spices of the East as well as the economic impact of these in the Renaissance, a question remains rarely investigated, we are referring to the spread and use of plants from the New World which in turn also became spices of considerable economic and cultural importance. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze, from the texts of writers, physicians, herbaristas and natural philosophers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, spread, use and cultivation of species of the genus Capsicum, in both the Atlantic and the East Indies, promoted the great sea voyages undertaken by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century.