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VIAGENS de Luís de Cadamosto e de Pedro de Sintra. Lisboa. 1948. - VIAGENS de Luís de Cadamosto e de Pedro de Sintra . Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1948. XVIII, 208, [4] pp.: il.; 255 mm. First edition. Commemorative edition of the 5th Centenary of the Discovery of Guinea, published by the Portuguese Academy of History in 1948, with a preface and historical notes by Damião Peres, reproducing in a bilingual edition, Italian and Portuguese, the travel accounts of Luís de Cadamosto, first printed in 1507 in the collection Paesi Nuovamente Ritrovati . This collection brings together the accounts of two voyages undertaken by Cadamosto to the West African coast in 1455 and 1456, in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator, and the account of Pedro de Sintra's voyage which, after the Prince's death, reached Sierra Leone and the coast of present-day Liberia. It constitutes a complementary narrative source to the chronicle of Gomes Eanes de Zurara, which does not cover events in Guinea after 1447, and should, however, be used with caution due to chronological inaccuracies by the Venetian navigator. A reference source for the study of Portuguese discoveries on the coast of Guinea in the second half of the 15th century. Reprinted by the Academy in 1988. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate