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PISANO (Mestre Mateus de). LIVRO da Guerra de Ceuta. Lisboa. 1915. - PISANO (Mestre Mateus de) LIVRO da Guerra de Ceuta . Escripto por Mestre Mateus de Pisano em 1460. Publicado por Ordem da Academia das Sciências de Lisboa e vertido em português por Roberto Corrêa Pinto. Lisboa: Academia das Sciências de Lisboa, 1915. XX, 50 pp.; 325 mm. First Portuguese translation of De Bello Septensi , a Latin chronicle composed by Master Matthew of Pizan in 1460, forty-five years after the conquest of Ceuta, and which remained unpublished until its Latin edition of 1790 by the Royal Academy of Sciences. Considered by some scholars to be a summarized paraphrase, in Latin, of the Chronicle of the Taking of Ceuta by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, the work narrates the conquest of the North African stronghold in 1415 by the arms of King John I and his sons. It was written by Matteo de Pizan, an Italian humanist summoned to Portugal by the Prince Regent Pedro to educate the young King Afonso V and to write, in Latin, the chronicles of the Portuguese kings. A source of reference, albeit a derivative one, for the historiography of the conquest of Ceuta. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate