Alfonso Sánchez e a sua tradução latina da Peregrinaçam de Fernão Mendes Pinto Contexto literário e interesse pelo Oriente na génese de um manuscrito seiscentista

Abstract

During the first half of the seventeenth century, the Spanish erudite Alfonso Sánchez wrote a Latin summary of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinaçam that remained unpublished until today. Francis M. Rogers reported it for the first time in 1966, but in the meantime the original manuscript seems to have been lost. We take this article to announce the discovery of a modern partial transcription of that text and to present for the first time the complete contents of the Latin original manuscript. At the same time, we will undertake two related inquiries in order to recover the context that might have induced the work that Sánchez wrote after Mendes Pinto’s text: (1) the collection of all available biographical data about this Latinist; (2) the examination of Sánchez’s literary circle and the way in which most of its leading figures shared a common interest on the matters of the Iberian presence in East Asia.