Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Duarte Pacheco Pereira (; s. 1460 – 1533),Revista de História, ed. 69-70 (1967), p. 513. Eurípedes Simões de Paula, Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de História, Sociedade de Estudos Históricos (Brazil) yang disebut Achilles Portugis (Aquiles Lusitano) oleh penyair Camões,Luís de Camões, dalam The Lusiads (mula-mula dicetak pada 1572), Canto X, 12:E canta como lá se embarcariaEm Belém o remédio deste dano,Sem saber o que em si ao mar traria,O grão Pacheco, Aquiles Lusitano.O peso sentirão, quando entraria,O curvo lenho e o férvido Oceano,Quando mais n' água os troncos que gemeremContra sua natureza se meterem. Translation by Robert Ffrench Duff, in The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse (1880), p. 365: She sang how in his ship a man would goFrom Belem to avenge the cruel shame. The weight it bears the ocean shall not know, That great Pacheco who shall justly claim Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name;When he embarks, the surging waves his weight Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great, And in the water sink below its usual state.Manuel Mira The forgotten Portuguese (1998), p. 153 adalah seorang kaptel laut, penjelajah dan kartografer Portugis. Ia menjelajahi tengah Samudera Atlantik di barat kepulauan Tanjung Verde, di sepanjang pesisir Afrika barat dan sampai India. Kemampuannya meliputi strategi perang, penjelajahan, matematika dan astronomi.

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 Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c.1509) Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, 1892 edition, Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional.online

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