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LEITE (Duarte). COISAS de Vária História. Lisboa. 1941. - LEITE (Duarte) COISAS de Vária História . Lisboa: Seara Nova, 1941. 230, [2] pp.; 190 mm. A collection of studies on the history of the Discoveries, which the author compiled into a volume in 1941. The first text, ”A Romanticized Theory of the Portuguese Discoveries , ” reproduces articles published in the magazine Seara Nova ; the remaining texts were published in Primeiro de Janeiro between March 1939 and January 1940. The author defends opinions that he acknowledges contradict established ones. The section dedicated to the Discoveries deals with matters of priority and legend: who discovered the Madeira archipelago and its rediscovery, the legend of Machim and Ana d'Arfet, the discovery of the Azores and the Cape Verde islands, the Portuguese in North America before Columbus and in Brazil before Álvares Cabral, the first circumnavigation of Africa and the discovery of Australia. The ”Miscellaneous Themes” section includes Prester John, the Treaty of Tordesillas, Christopher Columbus (whether he was Portuguese and his canonization), the virginity of Prince Henry the Navigator, and the history of sugar, from the Middle Ages to the first Portuguese sugars and the sugar boom in Madeira. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate