The Work from padre António Cordeiro, HISTÓRIA INSULANA DAS ILHAS A PORTUGAL SUJEYTAS NO OCIANO OCCIDENTAL, mas published in1717, in Lisboa.
«By including all the islands in his work, a factor that reflects a feeling of “Azoreanness”, and by reflecting on the organization of regional powers and institutions, a factor that reflects a perception of “insularity”, Father António Cordeiro is the first thinker to outline a clear autonomist reflection in an avant-garde work, which only many years later the history of the islands would make, in part, viable.»
(Carlos M. M. do Vale César, President of the GRA, extracted from the preface to this edition)