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FROM LISBON to Calicut. Minneanapolis. 1956. - FROM LISBON to Calicut . Translated by Alvin E. Prottengeier; Commentary and Notes by John Parker. Minneanapolis: University of Minnesota, 1956. 40, [4] pp.; 210 mm. English translation, by Alvin E. Prottengeier, of the German printed work Den rechten weg ausz zu faren von Liszbona gen Kallakuth , published in Nuremberg in 1505 (in Portuguese, ”The right way to sail from Lisbon to Calicut”), with a facsimile of the original and commentary and notes by John Parker. The text belongs to the news publications that disseminated news of the Portuguese voyage to India throughout Europe in the early years of the 16th century. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate