1910. With twenty-one illustrations and map. The author's intention
in this book is to outline the biographies of certain
representative Portuguese of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
giving some account of the society in which they lived and the
history which they made. The most momentous incident in that
history is Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India in 1497-1499; not
only because it closed the main period of the Portuguese
discoveries and ushered in a period of conquest and empire; but
also because it made an epoch in the history of civilization by
establishing direct and permanent contact between Europe and the
Far East. Other figures profiled in this volume include Prince
Henry the Navigator; Diogo Cao and Bartholomeu Dias, the principal
forerunners of Vasco da Gama; Albuquerque, a genius too many-sided
to be dismissed in a phrase; King Manoel, the cynical autocrat who
played one of the greatest games of diplomacy ever lost; D. Joao de
Castro, the fine flower of Portuguese chivalry and culture; King
Sebastian, the last of the crusaders; Camoes, the singer who
crowned them all with imperishable bays and others.
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