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GARCIA de Orta: Número especial. Lisboa. 1956. - GARCIA de Orta: Número especial . Lisboa: Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações do Ultramar, 1956. 336 pp.: il.; 260 mm. This is a special issue of the journal Garcia de Orta , the publication of the Board of Geographic Missions and Overseas Research, published in 1956 as part of the celebrations of the fourth centenary of the introduction of printing in Goa. It brings together about twenty studies dedicated to the city and territory of Goa, of a very diverse nature: geology, geomorphology and tropical geography, with contributions from Pierre Gourou and Norbert Krebs annotated by Orlando Ribeiro; agriculture, forestry, livestock, fishing and entomology; ethnography and ways of life, including the festival of St. Francis Xavier in Old Goa; and history, law, heraldry and art. In the historical and artistic field, the program includes CR Boxer's study on António Bocarro and the Book of the State of Eastern India , the contributions of the Viscount of Lagoa on the Portuguese heraldic system of Asia and of Luís Fernando de Carvalho Dias on the ordinances of India, the oriental drawings from the time of St. Francis Xavier by Georg Schurhammer, the architecture of the Society of Jesus and the ”ideal city” of the Renaissance applied to the Portuguese cities of India by Mário T. Chicó, the Indo-Portuguese silverware by João Couto, and the Italian artist Placido Francesco Ramponi and the tomb of St. Francis Xavier by Carlos de Azevedo. It concludes with a photographic documentary on the churches of Goa, with text and photographs by Mário T. Chicó. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate