blueyorkie's review against another edition
5.0
With the Letter to El-Rei D. Manuel I About the Finding of Brazil, its author, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, fulfilled his role as a notary belonging to the fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral and left a historical document of great importance.
Pêro Vaz de Caminha was born in Porto in 1437 and murdered in India in the Calicut factory, in 1500, by Moors.
The author was a knight of the houses of D. Afonso V, D. João II, and D. Manuel I. History has placed him among those who, as we have already mentioned, was in the fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral.
The fleet that left the Tagus estuary towards India, which, due to a miscalculation, discovered the Lands of Vera Cruz, was composed of twelve ships and a caravel.
The letter, dated May 1, 1500, is a testament to the first impressions collected by the Portuguese when they arrived in the new world. This historical record remained unpublished for three centuries because it was not given much importance by the historians of the time. It was only published in 1817 as part of the work Choreografia Brasileira by Father Aires do Casal. She had currently located in Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon.
According to Carlos Eduardo do Soveral in the Dictionary of Literature, the Letter of Finding of Brazil is "the most vivid testimony concerning the official recognition of the land of Vera Cruz. infuses the geneanic spectacle, and also, especially, the attraction that the indigenous woman exerts in the strong complexion of the Portuguese. With this letter one can somehow consider the inauguration of the cycle of the good savage, or of primitivism, which finds the greatest expression in the work by J. J. Rousseau. Dated May 1, 1500, it was not printed for the first time until 1817."
Pêro Vaz de Caminha was born in Porto in 1437 and murdered in India in the Calicut factory, in 1500, by Moors.
The author was a knight of the houses of D. Afonso V, D. João II, and D. Manuel I. History has placed him among those who, as we have already mentioned, was in the fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral.
The fleet that left the Tagus estuary towards India, which, due to a miscalculation, discovered the Lands of Vera Cruz, was composed of twelve ships and a caravel.
The letter, dated May 1, 1500, is a testament to the first impressions collected by the Portuguese when they arrived in the new world. This historical record remained unpublished for three centuries because it was not given much importance by the historians of the time. It was only published in 1817 as part of the work Choreografia Brasileira by Father Aires do Casal. She had currently located in Torre do Tombo, in Lisbon.
According to Carlos Eduardo do Soveral in the Dictionary of Literature, the Letter of Finding of Brazil is "the most vivid testimony concerning the official recognition of the land of Vera Cruz. infuses the geneanic spectacle, and also, especially, the attraction that the indigenous woman exerts in the strong complexion of the Portuguese. With this letter one can somehow consider the inauguration of the cycle of the good savage, or of primitivism, which finds the greatest expression in the work by J. J. Rousseau. Dated May 1, 1500, it was not printed for the first time until 1817."
kakaparedes's review against another edition
5.0
Não sei explicar, mas senti ma angústia ao ler os primeiros relatod da chegada dos Portugueses ao Brasil.
Leitura de uma hora e muito interessante.
Leitura de uma hora e muito interessante.
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