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PERES (Damião). O DESCOBRIMENTO do Brasil por Pedro Álvares Cabral: Antecedentes e Intencionalidade. Barcelos. 1949. - PERES (Damião) O DESCOBRIMENTO do Brasil por Pedro Álvares Cabral: Antecedentes e Intencionalidade . Barcelos: Portucalense Editora, Livros de Portugal, 1949. 148 pp.; 195 mm. In this work, Damião Peres defends the thesis that Pedro Álvares Cabral's arrival in Brazil in 1500 was intentional, contrasting with the traditional interpretation that attributed the discovery to a fortuitous deviation from his route, caused by currents and storms in the South Atlantic, on his way to India. Published in a joint Portuguese-Brazilian edition, on the occasion of the author's participation in the National History Congress held in Rio de Janeiro in 1949, the work brings together the main evidence and antecedents that, according to the author, point to prior Portuguese knowledge of Brazilian lands. It provoked intense historiographical controversy, notably with the São Paulo professor Tomás Oscar Marcondes de Sousa, who contested Portuguese priority in the discovery of America. A fundamental contribution to the debate on the intentionality of the discovery of Brazil, one of the most discussed topics in 20th-century Luso-Brazilian historiography. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate