PINTO, FERNÃO MENDES

fĕrnouNˈ mĕnˈdĕsh pēnˈtoo, c.1509–1583, Portuguese traveler. For some 20 years he traveled in Africa and Asia, journeying to far places and experiencing great hardships, including years as a slave. His account, Peregrinação [wanderings] (1614), is one of the most colorful narratives of world travel literature. Its truthfulness has been questioned, but there is now general agreement that the story is merely exaggerated.

See M. Collis, The Grand Peregrination (1949).

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Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan
Book by Olof G. Lidin; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Japan--Civilization--1185-1600, Japan--Civilization--1185-1600--Sources, Japan--Civilization--Western Influences, Japan--Civilization--Western Influences--Sources, Japan--Religion--To 1600, Japan--Religion--To 1600--Sources, Portuguese--Japan--Tanegashima--History--16th Century, Portuguese--Japan--Tanegashima--History--16th Century--Sources, Weapons--Japan--History--Kamakura Momoyama Periods, 1185-1600
...1614 edition) 103 7. Portrait of Fernao Mendes Pinto 119 8. Portuguese trumpeter 120...his Peregrinacam: 1. Diogo Zeimoto 2. Fernao Mendes Pinto 3. Cristovao Borralho. From such disparate...
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Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625
Book by Joan-Pau RubiÉs; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Ethnology--Europe--History, India, South--Description And Travel
...such was the case of Mendes Pinto , and that many important...expansion written by Fernao Lopes de Castanheda 1551...in the story heard by Fernao Nunes in the 1530s. Sanskrit...written in 1520 2 and Fernao Nunes possibly written...
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The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians 1536-1765
Book by AntÓnio JosÉ Saraiva, H. P. Salomon, I. S.D. Sassoon; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Inquisition--Portugal, Jews--Portugal
...these groups. According to the chronicler Fernao Lopes, after the death of King Fernando...11 ____________________ 10 Fernao Lopes, Cronica de D. Fernando, Lisbon...streets. ____________________ 12 Fernao Lopes, Historia de uma Revolucao, Primeira...
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A History of Portugal
Book by Charles E. Nowell; D. Van Nostrand, 1952
Subjects: Portugal--History
...leased out the whole Guinea coast as a concession to one Fernao Gomes on condition that he pay the crown a yearly rental of...1471 and sighted Santo Antao and Ano Bom on the same voyage. Fernao do Po, a year later, found the island which still bears his...
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A History of South-East Asia
Book by D. G. E. Hall; Macmillan, 1955
Subjects: Asia, Southeastern--History
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journal articles on: Pinto FernAo Mendes  - 3 results

 
 
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China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China
Journal article by Robert Finlay; Journal of World History, Vol. 2, 2000
Subjects: World History
...Lusitanians who were truly great," open-minded observers of the East such as Tome Pires, Sebastiao Manrique, and Fernao Mendes Pinto. 73 He describes Henry of Portugal ("the Navigator," 1394-1460), the supposed architect of Portuguese exploration...
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The Seizure of the Sta. Catarina Revisited: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, VOC Politics and the Origins of the Dutch-Johor Alliance (1602 - C.1616)
Journal article by Peter Borschberg; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Imperialism--History, Netherlands--History, Portugal--History, Seizure of vessels and cargoes--History, War, Maritime (International law)--History
...incident include: Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto, Portugueses e Malaios. Malaca e os Sultanatos...Vol. I, pp. 146-7; Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto: Melaka, Johor and Aceh. A Birds Eye View...1989), especially p. 38. (97.) De Sousa Pinto, Portugueses e Malaios, p. 122. (98...
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Upstreams and Downstreams in Early Modern Sumatra
Journal article by Barbara Watson Andaya; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995
Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Indonesia, Sumatra--Social aspects
...using his account, set in a semi-fictional context. See Rebecca D. Catz, ed. and trans., The Travels of Mendes Pinto (Chicago, 1989), 24-31; Fernao Lopes de Castanheda, Historia do Descrobrimento e Conquista da India pelos Portugueses (Porto, 1979...


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The Library of Robinson Crusoe
Magazine article by Alberto Manguel; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Winter 2001
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Defoe, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Robinson Crusoe (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
...Fishes," in which Crusoe might have read a defense of the brothers of Friday; most certainly the Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto, which tells of strange voyages through the still-mysterious Orient and which Crusoes author, the omnivorous Defoe...


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Pinto, FernÃo Mendes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PINTO, FERNAO MENDES fernouN men desh pen too, c.1509 1583, Portuguese traveler. For some 20 years he traveled in Africa and Asia, journeying to...


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