Cartas de Duarte Coelho a El Rei
By: José Antônio Gonsalves de Mello, Cleonir Xavier de Albuquerque ; prefácio, Leonardo Dantas Silva.
Contributors: John III, King of Portugal, 1502-1557.; Mello, José Antônio Gonsalves de, 1916-; Costa, Cleonir Xavier de Albuquerque e.
Edition: 2a. ed.
Series: Série Descobrimentos ;; 7
Publisher: Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Editora Massangana
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Recife
Language: por
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Coelho, Duarte, d. 1554 -- Correspondence.; John III, King of Portugal, 1502-1557 -- Correspondence.; Colonial administrators -- Brazil -- Pernambuco -- Correspondence.; Pernambuco (Brazil) -- History.; Brazil -- History -- 1500-1548.; Brazil -- History -- 1548-1580.
Description: "Five letters from Duarte Coelho, donatary captain of Pernambuco, to João III, King of Portugal. All but the first letter are photographically reproduced; all are transcribed in original orthography; and all are also printed (and annotated) in updated Portuguese. Excellent source for early history of one of the few successful colonization efforts in early-16th-century Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Reprodução fac-similar, leitura paleográfica e versão moderna anotada."