LOPES DE CASTANHEDA

SubTitulo: HISTORIA DO DESCOBRIMENTO e CONQUISTA DA INDIA PELOS PORTUGUESES.
Autor: WESSELS, C. - S.J.
Edição: (1552- 1561)
Descrição: Thirty- one chapters of the lost "Livo IX" re- discovered and now published for the first time by... With 2 facsimiles. The Hague. Martinus Nijhoff. 1929 Enc. editorial int de sint.; XII+ 76 págs.+ 1 extratexto desd.; il.; 25 cm. "Introduction - Among the old writers on the history of the Portuguese Colonies in East India Fernão Lopes de Castanheda takes an important place. 1)Unfortunately his chief work: the history of the discovery of India, was never finished. In the introduction to the first book, which was published in 1552, the author announces that his work is to consist of ten books 2) and to be continued up to death of João de Castro (1548). 3) In their preface to the eight volume, which the Castanheda`s sons published after their father`s death, they acccordingly beg the youthful king Sebastian, that he «make take under his protection this eight book and together with it the following ninth and tenth, which are to be published at an early date.» (...)"