Short answers, pulled from the story.
António Galvão (c. 1490-1557) was a Portuguese soldier, chronicler, and administrator who governed the fort of Ternate in the Maluku islands from 1536 to 1540. He is significant as the first person to compile a comprehensive account of all leading voyages and explorers up to 1550, covering both Portuguese and other nationalities, in a work praised for its accuracy.
The Treaty of Discovery is a work by António Galvão that presented the first synthesis of all discoveries made by Portuguese and Spanish explorers up to 1550. It was printed in Lisbon in 1563 by his friend Francisco de Sousa Tavares and translated into English by Richard Hakluyt, who published it in 1601 as "The discoveries of the world - by Antonio Galvano".
Galvão's Historia das Molucas, a ten-book history of the Maluku islands, was passed to the Portuguese crown but never printed. Substantial portions are believed to have been reproduced verbatim in Damião de Góis's 1566-67 chronicle, and the original disappeared after Góis's death. In 1928 a possible early draft was found in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville and was published in 1971 by Hubert Jacobs.
António Galvão's father was Duarte Galvão, who served as chief diplomat and chronicler to King Afonso V of Portugal. António received an inheritance from his father, 12,000 cruzados of which he spent funding a seminar in Ternate.
After returning to Portugal in 1540, Galvão learned he had fallen into disgrace. He spent his final years in anonymity and poverty at the Royal Hospital in Lisbon, awaiting a pension. He died there and was buried in 1557.
António Galvão served as captain of Maluku and governor of the fort of Ternate from 1536 to 1540. He was described as a respected governor who sent a mission to Papua, received local embassies, and founded a seminar funded from his personal inheritance.