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MARTINS (António Coimbra). EM TORNO de Diogo do Couto. Coimbra. 1985. - MARTINS (António Coimbra) EM TORNO de Diogo do Couto . Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, 1985. 144 pp.; 250 mm. A collection of studies dedicated to Diogo do Couto (1542–1616), chronicler and chief archivist of the Torre do Tombo in Goa, continuator of João de Barros's Décadas da Ásia and author of Soldado Prático . Coimbra Martins, one of the leading specialists on the chronicler's work, brings together five essays preceded by a preface, ”The Metamorphosis, ” and followed by a toponymic and onomastic index. The first study deals with the relationship between Camões and Couto, companions in India; the second discusses the textual issues of *Soldado Prático* (Practical Soldier ), a work known in different versions; the third, ”Pelos Vidigueira e D. Francisco” (Through Vidigueira and D. Francisco), addresses Couto's connection to the Counts of Vidigueira, descendants of Vasco da Gama, and in particular to D. Francisco da Gama, Viceroy of India; the fourth, ”Em Busca da Década 11” (In Search of the 11th Decade), follows the trail of the Lost Decade; the last presents six writers from Portuguese Asia. Some of these texts were presented at the II International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History. This is a relevant contribution to textual criticism and the history of Couto's work, whose troubled transmission, between losses, thefts, and successive versions, constitutes one of the most complex problems in Portuguese historiography of the East. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate