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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Portugisiska
Serie: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics
Antal sidor: 320
Utgivningsdatum: 1990-01-01
Förlag: Liverpool University Press
Dimensioner: 211 x 154 x 23 mm
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ISBN: 9780856684883

Albuquerque

Name: Albuquerque
Price: 465.00 SEK
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Author: Tom Earle, John Villiers
ISBN: 9780856684883

Caesar of the East. Selected Texts by Afonso de Albuquerque and His Son

av Tom Earle, John Villiers

Häftad, Portugisiska, 1990-01-01

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Of all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing. He was a commander of bold strategic conceptions, a far-sighted administrator and in addition a talented writer, whose dispatches to King Manuel contain a wealth of spontaneous narrative, description and pungent comment. Caesar of the East is a specially edited anthology, based on the original Portuguese texts, of selections from these dispatches, or Cartas , and from the Comentarios (Commentaries) written by Albuquerque's son, also called Afonso, about his father's career, with new English translations of both. In the introduction Dr Villiers evaluates the part that Albuquerque played in the foundation of the Portuguese empire in Asia, and Dr Earle provides a literary analysis of the contrasting styles of the Cartas and the Comentarios , where the father's informality and spontaneity contrast fascinatingly with his son's carefully contrived and highly literary narrative. Historical and geographical notes help the reader to understand the text.

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The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century extended from Brazil to China.

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T F Earle is Director of Portuguese Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of two books about another great sixteenth century Portuguese, Antonio Ferreira. John Villiers, since gaining his doctorate in Portuguese history at the University of Cambridge, has specialised in the study of the Portuguese empire in the East and the maritime history of Southeast Asia, on which he has published numerous books and articles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the Council of the Hakluyt Society.