Frases de Duarte Barbosa

Duarte Barbosa foi um viajante e navegador português. Serviu como oficial do Estado Português da Índia entre 1500 e 1516-17 no cargo de escrivão em Cananor e, por vezes, intérprete da língua local .

A sua obra, "Livro de Duarte Barbosa" é um dos mais antigos exemplos de literatura de viagem portuguesa logo após a chegada ao oceano Índico. Em 1519 partiu na primeira viagem de circum-navegação com Fernão de Magalhães, de quem era cunhado, vindo a perecer em Maio de 1521 no banquete-cilada do rei Humabon, em Cebu, nas Filipinas. Wikipedia

✵ 1480 – 1545

Duarte Barbosa: 3 citações 0 Curtidas

Duarte Barbosa: Frases em inglês

“[The Vijayanagar kings allowed] that every man may come and go, and live according to his own creed without suffering any annoyance, and without enquiring whether he is a Christian, Jew, Moor or Heathen. Great equity and justice is observed by all.”

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The Book of Duarte Barbosa, vol. I, p. 202. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 2

“It is obviously an advantage in the sixteenth century Bengal to be a Moor, in as much as the Hindus daily become Moors to gain the favour of their rulers.”

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Barbosa, The Book of Duarte Barbosa, II, p.148. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.

“The enthusiastic soldiers, who, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, spread the faith of Islam among the timid race of Bengal, made forcible conversions by the sword, and, penetrating the dense forests of the Eastern frontier, planted the crescent in the villages of Sylhet. Tradition still preserves the names of Adam Shahid, Shah Halal Mujarrad, and Karmfarma Sahib, as three of the most successful of these enthusiasts.”

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Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa