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Para adoçar, mais ainda, a vontade de ler este belo itinerário, segue o link para o Codex Casanatense MS. 1889 (mais um documento Português a habitar em terras alheias), na Biblioteca Casanatense em Roma.

“Several of its inscriptions provide information as to the date it was made, namely the allusion to the Siege of Diu of 1538, but the absence of any mention of the Japanese, whom the Portuguese contacted in 1541-43. It is therefore possible it was made circa 1540”

"The artist’s complete reliance on faces in three-quarter profile indicates he was trained in a Sultanate studio further north, at a date earlier in the century than that of the Codex. Either Mandu or Gujarat would seem to be the most obvious candidates for where he received his training.” …” We would suggest that he must have moved to Goa soon after his initial training in order for him to become acclimatised to the different female costumes of the Deccanand the south, so that they become a stereotyped part of his output." 

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"Our artist has been divorced from the elegant stylisations of the human figure seen inthe Sultanate schools”… “and trained to draw by his Portuguese patrons in a more naturalistic European manner.”…”this artist’s most extensive landscape painting, which with its broad strokes of brushwork, and alert and intelligent peasants, is surely not too far from what was going on in the early Mughal school."

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“Several Portuguese writers working in India during the sixteenth century on specific cultural projects were able to mobilize important information networks across maritime Asia. Outstanding examples, among many others, include Duarte Barbosa, Gaspar Correia, Dom João de Castro and Garcia de Orta. Each one of them worked and wrote under diverse circumstances, using different methods and receiving dissimilar support from the Portuguese authorities. But they were able to muster many of the official textual resources available from the Estado da Índia, while at the same time availing themselves of the collaboration of countless European and Asian informers. “

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