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Fernão Mendes Pinto - Portuguese
URL: http://www.ladifference.fr/fiches/auteurs/mendes.html

Né en 1510 à Montemor-o-Velho, Fernão Mendes Pinto s'embarque en 1537 pour l'Orient. Tour à tour trafiquant, naufragé, pirate, mercenaire à la solde des gouvernants locaux, esclave, négociant aisé, ambassadeur, il connaîtra l'Abyssinie, l'Arabie, l'Inde, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, l'actuelle Birmanie, le Siam, le Tonkin, la Chine et le Japon. Enrichi, il rencontrera à Malacca François Xavier, l'évangélisateur.

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PINTO, Fernão Mendes, 1514?-1583 - Peregrinaçam [...] - Portuguese
URL: http://purl.pt/82/index-HTML/M_index.html

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Pinto, Fernão Mendes on Encyclopedia.com - English
URL: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/Pinto-F1e.asp

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Portuguese traveler. For some 20 years he traveled in Africa and Asia, journeying to far places and experiencing great hardships, including years as a slave. His account, Peregrinação [wanderings] (1614), is one of the most colorful narratives of world travel literature. Its truthfulness has been questioned, but there is now general agreement that the story is merely exaggerated.

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Fernão Mendes Pinto - Portuguese
URL: http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/fernao_m_pinto.htm

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Aventureiro, escritor: c.1510 -1583

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pinto, Fernao Mendes - English
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A Portuguese traveller, born at Montemor-o-Velho near Coimbra, c. 1509; died at Almada near Lisbon, 8 July, 1583. After serving as page to the Duke of Coimbra, he went to the East Indies in 1537, and, for twenty-one years, travelled, chiefly in the Far East. In the course of his adventurous career at sea, he was, as he tells on the title page of his book, several times shipwrecked, taken prisoner many times and sold as a slave. He was the first to make known the natural riches of Japan, and founded the first settlement near Yokohama, in 1548. In 1558, tired of wandering, he returned to Portugal where he married, settling in the town of Almada.

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