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REIS (Eduardo). O NOTICIARISTA das Índias Duarte Barbosa. Macau. 1948. - REIS (Eduardo) O NOTICIARISTA das Índias Duarte Barbosa . Duarte Barbosa Pioneiro Revelador dos Costumes das Índias. Relação Biográfica Coordenada por [...]. Macau: Imprensa Nacional, 1948. 220, [4] pp.; 220 mm. Biographical account dedicated to Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480-1521), scribe and factor in the service of the Portuguese crown in India, author of the famous descriptive account of the coasts and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from Arabia and Persia to China, written in the early years of the 16th century and which would become one of the most widely used sources of information about the Orient by European cosmographers and chroniclers of the time, through manuscript dissemination and, later, its publication by Ramúsio. Barbosa later joined the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan, to whom he was related by marriage, serving as his interpreter, and died in Cebu in 1521, in the same episode in which the navigator perished. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate