Gaspar Correia (1492 – c. 1563 in Goa) was a Portuguese historian considered a Portuguese Polybius. He authored Lendas da Índia (Legends of India), one...
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Albuquerque: Le Lion des Mers d'Asie, Paris, Éditions Desjonquères, p. 168 Gaspar Correia (1558–1563) Lendas da Índia, 1864 edition, Academia Real das Sciencias...
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have learned mathematics and navigation. Da Gama's near-contemporary Gaspar Correia and others have claimed that he studied under Abraham Zacuto, an astrologer...
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famous letter giving an account of its fate. According to chronicler Gaspar Correia, Pero de Ataíde was a "very honored nobleman, a good knight, of virtuous...
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Tarikh al-Shihri, Ottoman forces amounted to 80 vessels and 40,000 men. Gaspar Correia provides a more specific account, claiming that the Turks assembled...
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attacked and killed by the father of the girl, according to the account by Gaspar Correia. Then another man intervened and claimed that the murdered New Christian...
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appears with the name "Gaspar da Gama" or "Gaspar of the Indies" in the chronicles and reports of discovery written by Gaspar Correia, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda...
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Manuel de Faria e Sousa's Asia Portugueza. The main conflict is with Gaspar Correia's Lendas da Índia, who omits Pêro de Ataíde and Aires Gomes da Silva...
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Gaspar Correia (who is not always reliable, and acknowledges this is hearsay) and also the 16th-century chronicler Francisco de Andrada. Both Correia...
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suggest that this happened on his return from India in 1499. However, Gaspar Correia, who was one of the earliest sixteenth-century chroniclers, suggests...
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