Cartas de Duarte Coelho a El Rei

Description:

"Five letters from Duarte Coelho, donatary captain of Pernambuco, to João III, King of Portugal. All but the first letter are photographically reproduced; all are transcribed in original orthography; and all are also printed (and annotated) in updated Portuguese. Excellent source for early history of one of the few successful colonization efforts in early-16th-century Brazil"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

subjects: Colonial administrators,  Correspondence,  History,  Sources

People: Duarte Coelho (d. 1554),  John III King of Portugal (1502-1557)

Places: Brazil,  Brazil (State) Pernambuco,  Pernambuco,  Pernambuco (Brazil : State),  Pernambuco (Brazil),  Pernambuco, Brazil (State)

Times: 1500-1548,  1548-1580