Fernão Lopes de Castanheda

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Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (* around 1480; † 1559 ) was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance .

Life

Castanheda was the illegitimate son of a royal official. In 1528 he accompanied his father to India , where he served in Goa and the Moluccas . When he returned in 1538, he had gathered enough material from written and oral sources for his great historical work. The first volume of his Historia do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos portugueses ( History of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portuguese ) appeared in 1551. Six more volumes appeared during Castanheda's lifetime, three posthumously. The work was soon translated into the main European languages.

Works

  • História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos portugueses ( I , III , IV-V , VIII )
    • Original and popular historia, from the invention of Calecut and other kingdoms, lands and islands, located in India, by the Indian Sea,: So previously no one knew about it, so today all spices, specerey and other delicious truths, almost in all of Christianity will be brought. As the same requested Vnterthanen to sea by the king from Portugal, found and war, etc. 1565 (defective) digital copy

Web links

  • Works in the Internet Archive
personal data
SURNAME Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese historian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1480
DATE OF DEATH 1559