Curated playlist
16th-century Portuguese male writers
- António GalvãoAntónio Galvão died in a Lisbon hospital in 1557, poor and forgotten.
- Fernão Lopes de CastanhedaA regent queen banned the last two volumes of Fernão Lopes de Castanheda's history of Portuguese India.
- Gaspar CorreiaGaspar Correia served as scrivener to Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India.
- João de BarrosJoão de Barros lost a fleet of ten ships and 900 men, then wrote a history.
- Gil VicenteGil Vicente's first known play was staged in the queen's rooms to celebrate a prince's birth.
- Luís de CamõesPortugal's national day, the 10th of June, is the day poet Luís de Camões died.
- Damião de GóisDamião de Góis dined with Martin Luther, then died confined in a monastery. The Portuguese scholar was tried for heresy.
- Fernão Mendes PintoCaptured near the Red Sea, Fernão Mendes Pinto was taken to Mocha to be sold as a slave.
- Francisco de HolandaA Portuguese painter's book includes four dialogues supposedly held with Michelangelo in Rome.
- Pedro NunesPedro Nunes showed why a ship holding a steady compass bearing misses the shortest route.
- João de CastroJoão de Castro noticed a compass needle deviation in 1538, 128 years before anyone was credited.