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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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1500 to 1559 · aged 59
Written about in
10 languages
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