Title: Cartas de Duarte Coelho a El Rei
First published: 1967
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.
Subjects: Colonial administrators, Correspondence, History, Sources
Places: Brazil, Brazil (State) Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Pernambuco (Brazil : State), Pernambuco (Brazil), Pernambuco, Brazil (State)
People: Duarte Coelho (d. 1554), John III King of Portugal (1502-1557)
Time periods: 1500-1548, 1548-1580