Dom Infante Henrique, Henry the Navigator, was a complex and
enigmatic man. During his long life, he participated in the
conquest of Ceuta, wresting it from the Moors, and founded a school
of navigation that served as a center of study for all of Europe,
indeed the world. Henry was instrumental in sending intrepid
explorers down the coast of Africa in an attempt to round the cape
and reach India, blocked to trade with Europe since the fall of
Constantinople. The eventual rounding of Africa by Vasco da Gama
was not accomplished in Henry's lifetime but he did accomplish many
great and evil things because of the complex man he was. Henry
comes to us in history as abstemious and highly religious with none
of the base appetites prone to men. In The Prince of Ambition, the
author has attempted to put some fictional meat on those historical
bones.
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