16th-century history

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Fernao Mendes Pinto 10: Lisbon at Last

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Lisbon in 1572, as seen in the atlas of Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg - (WikiI)

The Fernao Mendes Pinto story reaches its conclusion, and he finally reaches Portugal once more.

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Sources:

  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  • Hart, Thomas R. “Style and Substance in the Peregrination.” Portuguese Studies 2 (1986).

  • Hart, Thomas R. “True or False: Problems of the ‘Peregrination.’” Portuguese Studies 13 (1997).

  • Rubiés, Joan Pau. “Real and Imaginary Dialogues in the Jesuit Mission of Sixteenth-Century Japan.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 55, no. 2/3 (2012).

  • Rubiés, Joan Pau. “The Oriental Voices of Mendes Pinto, or the Traveller as Ethnologist in Portuguese India.” Portuguese Studies 10 (1994).

  • Spence, Jonathan D. The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

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Fernao Mendes Pinto 3: Melaka and the Embarrassed Envoy

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16-century Malacca as drawn by Gaspar Correia

Our 16th-century traveller, among so many other things, arrives in Malacca (Melaka). From there he is sent out as envoy, leading to misadventure, near death, and criticism of the Portuguese Empire.

If you like what you hear and want to chip in to support the podcast, my Patreon is here.

Sources:

  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.

  • The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, translated by Walter de Gray Birch. Hakluyt, 1875.

  • Boxer, C.R. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825. Carcanet, 1991.

  • Diffie, Bailey Wallys. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580. University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

  • Newitt, Malyn. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400–1668. Routledge, 2004.

  • Paine, Lincoln. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World. Knopf Doubleday, 2015.