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CORREIA (Gaspar). CRÓNICAS de D. Manuel e de D. João III (até 1533). Lisboa. 1992. - CORREIA (Gaspar) CRÓNICAS de D. Manuel e de D. João III (até 1533) . Leitura, Introdução, Notas e Índice por José Pereira da Costa. Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 1992. LVI, 364, [6] pp.: il.; 295 mm. Gaspar Correia (c.1495-c.1563), scribe of the Royal Chamber, left for India in 1512, where he would serve as secretary to Afonso de Albuquerque. Having settled in the East for more than three decades, he is the author of * Lendas da Índia* (Legends of India), one of the most vigorous monuments of 16th-century Portuguese historiography, often referred to as the ”Portuguese Polybius”. Between 1532 and 1534, Gaspar Correia also composed a vast royal chronicle, the Chronicles of the Kings of Portugal and summaries of their lives with the history of India and the fleets that were sent until the year 1533 , covering all the Portuguese monarchs from Afonso Henriques onwards. This edition publishes, with reading, introduction, notes and index by José Pereira da Costa, the final part of this chronicle, relating to the reigns of Manuel I and John III until 1533, a text that remained largely unpublished and little studied until the research of Artur de Magalhães Basto in the mid-20th century. A reference edition from the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, of great interest for the study of Portuguese royal chronicles and their connection to the historiography of expansion in the East. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate