Damião Peres’ last publications reveal that he started to give his attention to certain subjects he had been somewhat removed from: the annotated re-edition of the História da Igreja em Portugal de Fortunato de Almeida (History of the Church in Portugal by Fortunato de Almeida, 1967), an informational work on A gloriosa história dos mais belos castelos de Portugal (The Glorious History of the Most Beautiful Castles in Portugal, 1969), and the História do Banco de Portugal – 1821-1846 (History of the Bank of Portugal – 1821-1846, 1971) which covered the Bank’s early years. These were subjects though that he did not make any decisive contribution to although they are not unworthy of such a varied and full career of considerable quality.

Damião Peres was a historian who left his personal mark on the works he wrote, the publications he endorsed and the undertakings he embarked on. He left no disciples, perhaps because he had distanced himself from the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra. However, there remained the memory of his “fascinating teaching”, but no school especially since he persisted in sometimes lecturing on already outdated topics of the history of the Discoveries, continuing to be more concerned with establishing Portuguese priorities than with more recent problematisations (João Marinho dos Santos, “A docência...”, pp. 357-361). He never invested in training any disciples, leaving it to other – much less able – colleagues to hire young people (perhaps with the exception of Luís Ferrand de Almeida, who in a certain way continued his work on the study of diplomacy). This was a pity as he could have contributed to the modernisation of the Faculty which, partly due to his absence, continued with a form of teaching that was at times backward and at others anachronistic and which was thus forced to wait for a new era to regenerate it.

Works by the author : D. João I. Lisboa: Livraria Ferin, 1917; 1580: o governo do Prior do Crato. Barcelos: Companhia Editora do Minho, 1928; História de Portugal, direcção literária. Barcelos: Portucalense, vol. I, 1928; vol. II, 1929; vol. III, 1931; vol. IV, 1932; vol. V, 1933; vol. VI, 1934; vol. VII, 1935; vol. VIII, 1937; Suplemento, 1954; A diplomacia portuguesa e a sucessão de Espanha (1700-1704). Barcelos: Portucalense, 1931; História dos descobrimentos portugueses. Porto: Portucalense, 1934.; Como nasceu Portugal, Barcelos: s. n, 1938; Viagens de Luís de Cadamosto e de Pedro de Sintra. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da História, 1948; Américo Vespúcio e a expedição de 1501-1502: resposta a Marcondes de Sousa. Porto : Portucalense Editora, 1949; O descobrimento do Brasil por Pedro Álvares Cabral: antecedentes e intencionalidade. Porto – Rio de Janeiro: Portucalense Editora – Livros de Portugal, L.da, 1949; Esmeraldo De Situ Orbis por Duarte Pacheco Pereira. Introdução e anotações históricas de Damião Peres. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da História, 1954; Diogo Cão. Lisboa: Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1957; História monetária de D. João III: subsídios para a história portuguesa. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da História, 1957; Uma prioridade portuguesa contestada mas incontestável: a circum-navegação da África Austral por Bartolomeu Dias. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da História, 1960; História do Banco de Portugal - 1821-1846. Lisboa: Banco de Portugal, 1971; Fernão de Magalhães e o problema da comunicação do Atlântico com o Pacífico. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos da Marinha, 1972.

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