João de Barros

João de Barros () (1496 – 20 Oktober 1570), yang disebut Livy dari Portugis, adalah salah satu sejarawan Portugis besar pertama. Ia dikenal karena membuat Décadas da Ásia ("Dekade-dekade dari Asia"), sebuah catatan sejarah bangsa Portugis di India, Asia, dan tenggara Afrika.

Referensi 
 
 Manoel Severim de Faria "Vida de João de Barros", 1778, in vol. 9 of ''Da Ásia de João de Barros e Diogo do Couto, Lisbon.

Pranala luar 
 Portuguese Site about João de Barros containing information about his life and work - by Bruno Figueiredo 
 Barros:Decadas da Ásia … - links to scans of all 4 Barros-written, and most of the other 20 (post-Barros) volumes of Décadas da Ásia. For the first two Décadas, both the original (1553) edition and the "modernized" 1778-1788 edition are available; for the rest, only the latter edition.
  Décadas da Ásia  (several chapters, about the early exploration) - nead.unama.br
  Décadas da Ásia (2nd Decade, 1st part) - Google books (Book 1: Tristão da Cunha's expedition to India; Books 2, 3, 4: Alfonso de Albuquerque in the Arabian Sea (Ormuz) and India; Book 5: conquest of Goa)
  Décadas da Ásia (3nd Decade, 1st part, Books 1-5) (even though Google Books description mistakenly says this is the 5th Decade!)
  Décadas da Ásia (11th Decade) - Google books
  Partial text of the 3rd Década, Book 2, Chapter VII , "in which is described the land of China, and are related certain things of it, and especially of the city of Canton, which Fernão Pires de Andrade has discovered" - one of the earliest European descriptions of the Ming China. Re-typeset in a modern font, with a slightly modernized orthography.

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