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The letters of Felipe Moscoso testify not only of his biography but also of the life of the court of Carlos II and that of the ports and commercial cities.Felipe Moscoso was a merchant of Oraní origin, from the Saportes, some of the Jews of Oran (Algeria) who were expelled by the Marquis of the Vélez in 1669. His father Jacob Saportas had emigrated to Genoa a few years before expulsion and with him Felipe Moscoso.In Alicante he had the help of the Genoese and English in the commercial community, but many merchants of almost all important ports in Western Europe also collaborated with him, such as those of Genoa, Liorna, Cádiz, Lisbon, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Moscoso was a genius in the management of social networks and information.He had a special ability to become friends and maintain corresponding. His corresponding the same were interested in his fall of the horse on a trip he made, as they informed him of the vicissitudes of the valid and courtiers of the king, or the penalties of the banished Jewsso that they were judged with justice, since many of them were related to Judaism or had had it. In their notebooks received, commercial marks, missives in Italian language or the Portuguese of the time.For all this, Felipe Moscoso's legacy has interest from many points of view: not only history, not only politics and economic, but also social and cultural.

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