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A CARTA DE PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA by Pêro Vaz de Caminha

gaby_fraga's review against another edition

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4.0

Impressionante como o ego dos cara realmente os fez olhar pros povos originários e enfiar a humanidade deles no c*. "Coitadinhos tão inocentes e atrasados. Manda uns padre aí rei vamo salvar esse povo. E óbvio essas terras são suas agora, elas não tem dono ainda não."

Sabia que ler isso ia ser uma experiência mas não tava preparada pro tamanho da raiva que eu ia passar. Nota 4 pela importância histórica apenas.

edwinoldham's review against another edition

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3.0

In a way, amazing. It frankly shocked me how nicely, at least initially, the Portuguese treated the indigenous people. The abundance of details is unfortunately weighed down a little by the inevitable stagnation they bring as Pêro continues to describe things which frankly, outside of the true intent behind his letter and to a reader from the future, do not matter. Still, quite a finding.

malumoura's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

blueyorkie's review against another edition

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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author, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, fulfilled his role as a notary belonging to the fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral and left a historical document of great importance.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 had placed him among those who, as we have already mentioned, were 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 This historical record remained unpublished for three centuries because it was not given much importance by the historians of the time.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."

fuyukuaye's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

2.0

kakaparedes's review against another edition

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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.
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