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SMITH (Ronald Bishop). THE FIRST AGE of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations. Bethesda. 1968. - SMITH (Ronald Bishop) THE FIRST AGE of the Portuguese Embassies, Navigations and Peregrinations . Bethesda: Decatur Press, 1968. 3 v.: il.; 230 mm. This three-volume work is dedicated to the first decades of the Portuguese presence in Asia, based on the reconstruction of the embassies, voyages, and pilgrimages that, at the beginning of the 16th century, led the Portuguese to contact the kingdoms and powers of Asia. Each volume focuses on a specific region: the first, Southeast Asia (1509-1521); the second, the ancient kingdoms of Cambay and Bengal (1500-1521); and the third, Persia. The study draws on Portuguese chronicles and sources from the period, namely Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, João de Barros, Gaspar Correia and Tomé Pires, and pays special attention to the diplomatic and political aspects of the expansion, with missions, embassies and relations with local sovereigns, rather than to its strictly military or commercial side. A work of interest to the historiography of the Discoveries and of Portuguese India. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate