Pero Vaz de Caminha

Pero Vaz de Caminha
Vaz de Caminha (standing on the right) reads to Commander Cabral, Friar Henrique and Master João the letter that would later be sent to Manuel I of Portugal
Bornc. 1450
Porto, Kingdom of Portugal
Died15 December 1500
Calicut, India
OccupationsKnight, writer, secretary
Known forWriter of the official report of the discovery of Brazil.
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Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500; European Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ˈvaʒ ðɨ kɐˈmiɲɐ]; also spelled Pedro Vaz de Caminha) was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet (Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha, dated 1 May 1500). He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.


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