Curated playlist
Portuguese Renaissance 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.
- Duarte BarbosaDuarte Barbosa went to a banquet near Cebu in 1521 to collect a gift for Spain's king. He was killed there.
- Bernardim RibeiroPoet Bernardim Ribeiro lost his royal post after an alleged scandal with his cousin Joana.
- André de ResendeAndré de Resende, called the father of Portuguese archaeology, was later labeled a forger.
- Tomé PiresTomé Pires was a Portuguese apothecary who wrote the most trustworthy early European account of Asia east of India. He was also an ambassador whom the emperor of China never received. Almost nothing is known about his family or his youth.…
- Garcia de OrtaGarcia de Orta was convicted of Judaism twelve years after he died. His remains were dug up and burned in Goa.
- 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.
- 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.
- João de CastroJoão de Castro noticed a compass needle deviation in 1538, 128 years before anyone was credited.