This book provides significant new insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements using Eugenio dos Santos (1711-1760) as a common reference point. Eugenio dos Santos was a Portuguese architect and city planner who, among other projects, was responsible for the plans to rebuild Lisbon after the earthquake of 1 November 1755. His artistic and technical training, architectural production, aesthetic preferences and some of the books in his private library point to a person who embodied the transition between two moments in Portuguese...