Fernão Mendes Pinto

Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509, Montemor-o-Velho (Portugal) - 1583, Almada, (Portugal))

Its life, its voyage

Mendes Pinto embarks in 1537 for the Orient. In turn trafficker, shipwrecked man, Pirate, Mercenary with the pay of controlling local, slave, easy trader, ambassador, it will know the Abyssinie, the Arabia, the India, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, current the Burma, the Siam, the Tonkin, the China and the Japan.

Nouveau riche, it will meet in Malacca François Xavier, the evangelist. He will accompany it in his attempt by christianization by Japan and will think of finishing his life in the Society of Jesus. He definitively returns to Portugal in 1558 and employs his old days with the drafting of his book. He dies in 1583 in Portugal.

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