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PINTO (Fernão Mendes). PEREGRINAÇÃO. Lisboa. 1971. - PINTO (Fernão Mendes) PEREGRINAÇÃO . Versão para português actual de Maria Alberta Menéres. Lisboa: Edições Afrodite, 1971. 2 v.: il.; 185 mm. First edition of the modern Portuguese version of Fernão Mendes Pinto's Peregrination , prepared by Maria Alberta Menéres, published by Edições Afrodite, Fernando Ribeiro de Mello, in the ”Classics” collection. The 16th-century text, modernized and accompanied by a glossary, is illustrated with reproductions of the frontispieces of the first editions of the work in various European languages and with a fold-out map of the reconstruction of the author's travels in Asia, and is followed by critical commentaries by Eduardo Lourenço, Eduardo Prado Coelho, Almeida Faria, Armando Castro, Vítor Silva Tavares and Armando Martins Janeira. Over the decades, Menéres' version has become one of the most widespread ways for the non-specialized public to access the Peregrination , having been repeatedly reprinted, including in Brazil. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate