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See also:PINTO, FERNAO MENDES (1509–1583) , Portuguese adventurer, was See also:born at Montemor-o-Velho, of poor and humble parents, and entered the service of a See also:noble See also:lady in See also:Lisbon, being afterwards for two years See also:page to the See also:duke of See also:Aveiro in See also:Setubal. Desiring to try his See also:fortune in the See also:East, he embarked for See also:India In 1J37 in a See also:fleet commanded by the son of Vasco da Gama, and for twenty-one years travelled, fought and traded in See also:China, Tartary, See also:Pegu and the neighbouring countries, sailing in every See also:sea, while in 154.2-1543 he was one of the 'first Europeans to visit See also:Japan, where he introduced the See also:musket. Though he was thirteen times a See also:captive and seventeen times sold into See also:slavery, his See also:gay and dauntless spirit brought him through every misfortune. He was soldier and sailor, See also:merchant and See also:doctor, missionary and See also:ambassador; moreover, as the friend and travel-See also:ling See also:companion of St See also:Francis See also:Xavier, he See also:- LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")
lent the apostle of the Indies the See also:money with which to build the first Jesuit See also:establishment in Japan. In See also:January 1 554 Mendes Pinto was in See also:Goa, waiting for a See also:ship to take him to See also:Portugal, when he took a sudden See also:resolution to enter the See also:company of Jesus and devote a large See also:part of the See also:capital he had accumulated to the evangelization of Japan.
The See also:viceroy appointed him ambassador to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Bungo in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to give the See also:mission an See also:official See also:standing, and on the 18th of See also:April he set See also:sail with the provincial, See also:Father Belchior Nunes. Owing to See also:bad See also:weather and contrary winds, however, the missioners did not reach Japan until See also:July 1556, but the success of the mission represented a notable service to the cause of See also:Christianity and See also:civilization. On the 14th of See also:November 1556 Father Belchior and Mendes Pinto began their return voyage and reached Goa on the 17th of See also:February 1557. During his stay of a twelve-See also:month there, the latter See also:left the company, being dispensed from his vows for want of vocation at his own See also:request, though a See also:modern authority states that he was expelled because he was found to be a marrano, i.e. to possess Jewish See also:blood. He finally returned to Portugal on the 22nd of See also:September 1558, and settled at Pragal near Almada, where he married and wrote his famous See also:book, the Peregrination; the MS., in fulfilment of his wishes, was presented by his daughter to the Casa Pia for penitent See also:women in Lisbon, and it was published by the administrators in 1614. When See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. of See also:Spain came to Portugal as its king, he listened with See also:pleasure to the See also:account of Mendes Pinto's travels, and by See also:letter of the 15th of January 1583 gave him a See also:pension for his services in the Indies. But the See also:reward came too See also:late, for the See also:great traveller died on the 8th of July.
In the See also:light of our See also:present-See also:day knowledge of the East, Pinto is regarded as having been on the whole a careful observer and truthful narrator, but this was not always the See also:case. Some witty countryman of his own parodied his name into Ferndo, mentes? See also:Minto 1 (" See also:Ferdinand, do you See also:lie? I do t" ) ; and the See also:English dramatist See also:Congreve only expressed the See also:general See also:opinion of the unlearned when he wrote in Love for Love " Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, See also:thou liar of the first magnitude." It must be remembered that Pinto wrote the Peregrination See also:long subsequent to the events he records, and this fact and a certain fertility of See also:imagination sufficiently account for inexactitudes. Furthermore, as the book was only published posthumously, he never had the opportunity of correcting the proofs. Some of his most marvellous stories are expressly given on the authority of writers belonging to the countries he describes; others he tells from hearsay, and See also:Oriental informants are prone to exaggeration. But if he somewhat adorned the truth, he did not wilfully misrepresent it. The book itself gives the impression of sincerity, and the editors of the first edition See also:bear See also:witness to the probity, See also:good faith and truthfulness of Mendes Pinto as a See also:man. See also:Herrera Maldonado prefaced his See also:Spanish See also:translation of the Peregrination (162o) by a lengthy and erudite See also:apology to demonstrate its authenticity, and See also:Castilho has reinforced his arguments by modern testimonies. In the narrative portions of his See also:work Pinto's See also:style is See also:simple, clear and natural, his diction See also:rich, particularly in sea terms, and appropriate to his varying subjects. There is an entire See also:absence of artifice about the book, which must always See also:rank as a classic, and it might fairly be argued that Mendes Pinto did for the See also:prose of Portugal what See also:Camoens did for its See also:poetry; this is the more remarkable, because it does not appear that he ever received any See also:education in the See also:ordinary sense. He wrote the book for his See also:children to learn to read by, and modestly excused its See also:literary defects by alleging his rudeness and lack of See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent. Tradition has it that the MS. was entrusted to the chronicler Francisco de Andrade for the purpose of being polished in style and made ready for See also:press, but that all he did was to See also:divide it into chapters.
The Peregrination has gone through many See also:editions subsequent to that of 1614, and in 1865 Castilho published excerpts in his Livraria classica portugueza with an interesting See also:notice of Mendes Pinto's See also:life and writings. Versions exist in See also:German (3 editions), See also:French (3 editions), Spanish (4 editions), and in English by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Cogan, See also:London (1663, 1692 and—abridged and illustrated, with introduction by See also:Arminius See also:Vambery–1891). Cogan omits the chapters See also:relating to Mendes Pinto's intercourse with, and the last days of, St Francis Xavier, presumably as a concession to See also:anti-See also:Catholic See also:prejudice.
See Christovao Ayres, Ferndo Mendes Pinto (Lisbon, 1904), Ferndo Mendes Pinto e o Japao (Lisbon, 1906); also Subsidios .. . See also:Para a biographia de Ferndo Mendes Pinto by Jordao de Freitas (See also:Coimbra, 1905). (E.
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