Fernao Mendes Pinto 3: Melaka and the Embarrassed Envoy

Human Circus: Journeys in the Medieval World

The story of the 16th-century Portuguese traveller, writer, soldier, envoy, and so much more, takes us to Malaysia, to the city of Malacca (Melaka), and to diplomatic missions among nearby rulers.

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Sources:

• The Travels of Mendes Pinto, edited and translated by Rebecca D. Catz. University of Chicago Press, 1989.
• The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India, translated by Walter de Gray Birch. Hakluyt, 1875.
• Boxer, C.R. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825. Carcanet, 1991.
• Diffie, Bailey Wallys. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580. University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
• Newitt, Malyn. A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400–1668. Routledge, 2004.
• Paine, Lincoln. The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World. Knopf Doubleday, 2015.

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