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Sto caricando le informazioni... Peregrinazione, 1537-1558 (1614)di Fernão Mendes Pinto
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The biographical memories of a Portuguese adventurer in 16th century Asia from an original contemporaneous manuscript. Features one of the first accounts of firearms introduction in Japan. An impressive raw account of the clash of hugely different civilizations in the early age of European maritime expansion and of the controversial role of a peculiar strain of courageous and often unscrupulous adventurers. ( ) Un récit extraordinaire des aventures d'un marin portugais au 16ème siècle, à une époque où l'occident découvrait l'extrême-orient. Tour à tour soldat au service de la couronne, mercenaire au service de puissances étrangères, commerçant, naufragé et même esclave, ce livre est une tranche d'histoire qui se lit avec bonheur. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues to overwhelm questions about its source with the sheer enjoyment of its narrative. "[T]here is plenty here for the modern reader. . . . The vivid descriptions of swashbuckling military campaigns and exotic locations make this a great adventure story. . . . Mendes Pinto may have been a sensitive eyewitness, or a great liar, or a brilliant satirist, but he was certainly more than a simple storyteller."--Stuart Schwartz, The New York Times Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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