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Fernão Lopes de Castanheda
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1500 – 1559
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Who was Fernão Lopes de Castanheda?
Fernão Lopes de Castanheda was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance. His "History of the discovery and conquest of India", full of geographic and ethnographic objective information, was widely translated throughout Europe.
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- Born
- 1500
Santarém District - Also known as
- Кастаньеда, Фернан Лопес де
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Employment
- Bedel, University of Coimbra
(1538 - 1559)
- Bedel, University of Coimbra
- Died
- 1559
Coimbra
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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