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ZURARA (Gomes Eanes de). CRÓNICA dos Feitos Notáveis que se Passaram na Conquista de Guiné por Mandado do Infante D. Henrique. Lisboa. 1978. - ZURARA (Gomes Eanes de) CRÓNICA dos Feitos Notáveis que se Passaram na Conquista de Guiné por Mandado do Infante D. Henrique . Estudo crítico e anotações por Torquato de Sousa Soares. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa da História, 1978. 2 v.; 250 mm. A critical edition of the Chronicle of Notable Deeds that Took Place in the Conquest of Guinea , by the royal chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara, with introduction, critical study and notes by Torquato de Sousa Soares, a distinguished academic of the Portuguese Academy of History, who also promoted the updating of the text. Written between 1451 and 1454 at the behest of King Afonso V, the chronicle celebrates the Portuguese expansionist enterprise on the African coast and, above all, the actions of Prince Henry the Navigator, also serving the purpose of obtaining papal legitimacy for the conquests and for the religious conversion of the local populations; Zurara, who never personally visited Guinea, wrote it based on accounts from others. It is one of the foundational texts of Portuguese historiography on the Discoveries and, simultaneously, one of the first European sources to document the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, with the account of the arrival in Lagos, in 1444, of the first shipment of Africans captured by the Portuguese. Esteemed and highly sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate