Index viatorum extra Europam saec. XIII-XVIII
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Dates of travel: 1500-1501Areas visited: Brasil, Mocambique, Malindi, Calicut, Kochi
Birth / Death: c. 1467 / c. 1520
City of Origin / Family: Belmonte
Report/Manuscript:
Report/Publication: Paesi novamente retrovati - Newe unbekanthe landte. Eine digitale Edition früher Entdeckerberichte, ed. Norbert Ankenbauer (Editiones Electronicae Guelferbytanae, 10), Wolfenbüttel 2012, online: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel.
Translation: The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India. From Contemporary Documents and Narratives, transl. William Brooks Greenlee (Hakluyt Society, 2,81), London 1938 (1937), online: Internet Archive.
References: Malyn Newitt, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion, 1400-1668, London 2005; Charles E. Nowell, The Discovery of Brazil-Accidental or Intentional?, in: The Hispanic American Historical Review, 16 (1936), pp. 311–38.
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Anselme Adorno | Antonio de Abreu | Afonso de Albuquerque | Francesco de Almeida | Diogo de Azambuja | ...Duarte Barbosa | Jean de Bethencourt | Wilhelm von Boldensele | Bernhard von Breydenbach | ...
Giovanni Caboto | Pedro Álvares Cabral | Pêro Vaz de Caminha | Diogo Cao | Jacques Cartier | Niccolo dei Conti | Pero da Covilha | ...
Alvise ca'Da Mosto | Bartolomeu Dias | Dinis Dias | ...
Gil Eanes | Goncalo Eanes | Pedro de Evora | ...
Felix Fabri | Jacme Ferer | Martin Frobisher | ...
Vasco da Gama | Geoffrey of Langley | Humphrey Gilbert | Giovanni de Gallofonte | Buscarel de Giuzulfis (Ghizolfi) | Antão Gonçalves | Ruy González de Clavijo | Konrad Grünemberg | ...
Arnold van Harff | ...
Jourdain de Sévérac | ...
Gadifer de La Salle | Ludolph von Sudheim | ...
Giovanni de Marignolli | Fernao Mendes Pinto | Jean Mocquet | Johannes de Montecorvino | ...
Carsten Niebuhr | Afanassij Nikitin | João da Nova | ...
Oderico de Pordonone | ...
Afonso da Paiva | Jean and Raoul Parmentier | Binot Paulmier (de Gonneville) | Bartolomeu Perestrelo | Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | Antonio Pigafetta | Tome Pires | Heinrich Plütscho | Marco Polo | ...
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros | ...
Rodrigo Rabelo | Nicoloso da Recco | Pero Reinel | ...
Johann Jacob Saar | Hans Schiltberger | Willem Schouten | Francesco Serrão | Balthasar Sprenger | Hans Staden | ...
Pero Tafur | Tristão Vaz Teixeira | Luis Vaez de Torres | Nuno Tristão | Hans Tucher | ...
Antoniotto Usodimare | ...
Ludovico de Varthema | Giovanni da Verrazzano | Ugolino and Vadino Vivaldi | ...
João Gonçales Zarco | Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg | ...