Relação da Jornada e Itinerário da Índia: contactos e dependências

Abstract

The parallel passages of the Relação da Jornada by Nicolau de Orta Rebelo and the Itinerario da India by Friar Gaspar de São Bernardino are known since 1969. J. Veríssimo Serrão reasoned three years later that the Relação depended on the Itinerario, on the argument that its author could not report events of the ship on which he had not sailed, to the contrary of Friar Gaspar. A deeper investigation leads however to the opposite conclusion: the Itinerario seems to depend on the Relação. Since the Relação can not be original and does not depend on the Itinerario, one must admit a third source which both authors manipulated.