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PATO (Bulhão). PORTUGUEZES na India: Scenas Historicas. Lisboa. 1883. - PATO (Bulhão) PORTUGUEZES na India: Scenas Historicas . Lisboa: Santos Valente & Faro, 1883. [6]-246-[2 br.] pp.; 195 mm. A collection of historical scenes dedicated to episodes and figures from Portuguese India, in which Bulhão Pato recreates, in a literary style rooted in romanticism and historicism, moments of governance and life in 16th-century India, highlighting the confrontation between Pedro Mascarenhas and Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, two of the governors of the State of India in the first half of the 16th century. Some of this material had already been published in periodicals, notably in the magazine A Arte (1880), before being compiled into a book in this 1883 edition, an example of the nineteenth-century taste for narrating the history of Portuguese expansion through dramatized paintings or scenes, halfway between documentary rigor and literary evocation. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate