Gaspar Correia

Gaspar Correia (* around 1492, † 1563 ) was a Portuguese historian and author of the Chronicle Lendas da India .

Life

Little is known about the life of Gaspar Correia. In 1506 he entered the service of King Manuel I as moço de câmara . In 1512 he left Portugal for Portuguese India , where he became the escrivão of Viceroy Afonso de Albuquerque . In 1529 he returned to Portugal for a short time, then went back to India, where he presumably died in Goa in 1563 .

Correia's fame is based on his main work Lendas das Indias (legends / things worth reading from India). In this chronicle he described the history of the Portuguese in India from the Vasco da Gama expedition in 1497 to 1550. The manuscript came from Goa to Portugal in 1582 and remained in private hands. It was not published until 1858–1886 by the Academia Real das Sciencias in Lisbon. The Chronicle of the Portuguese Kings ( Chronicas dos Reys de Portugal ), also from Correia, has remained largely unnoticed to this day.

Works

Lendas da India

• Lendas da India by Gaspar Correa . 4 volumes. Lisbon 1858–1864.
• Lendas da India . Postage. 1975.
• The three voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his viceroyalti: from the Lendus da India of Gaspar Correa . New York 1963.
• Vasco da Gama: the way to the East Indies: based on contemporary sources edited. by Hans Plischke . Leipzig 1924.

Chronicas dos Reys

• Crónicas de D. Manuel e de D. João III até 1553 . Lisbon 1992.
• Crónicas dos reis de Portugal e sumários de suas vidas . Lisbon 1996.

literature

• António Alberto Banha de Andrade: Gaspar Correia Inédito . Coimbra, 1977.
• Ethel M. Pope: India in Portuguese literature . Pasora 1937 (reprint 1989).
• Aubrey Fitz Gerald Bell: Gaspar Corrêa . Oxford 1924.

Individual evidence

1. ^ François Soyer: The Massacre of the New Christians of Lisbon in 1506: A New Eyewitness Account . P. 222ff.