Peregrinação de Fernão Mendes Pinto - Aventuras extraordinárias dum português no Oriente

by Aquilino Ribeiro (Adaptação), Fernão Mendes Pinto

Recomendado para 9.º ano

Genres: Portuguese Literature, Travel, Portugal

176 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2019

About the author

Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelists of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960.

Natural son of Joaquim Francisco Ribeiro, a priest, and Mariana do Rosário Gomes, he had three older siblings: Maria do Rosário, Melchior and Joaquim. Destinated to priesthood, Aquilino Ribeiro got involved in republican politics, opposing the Portuguese monarchy, and had to exile himself in Paris; he returned to Portugal in 1914, after the Republican Revolution of 1910.

He was involved in the opposition to António de Oliveira Salazar and the Estado Novo, whose government tried to censor or ban several of his books.

He married twice, firstly in 1913 to German Grete Tiedemann (ca. 1890-1927), by whom he had a son Aníbal Aquilino Fritz Tiedeman Ribeiro in 1914, and secondly in Paris in 1929 to Jerónima Dantas Machado, daughter of the deposed President of Portugal Bernardino Machado, by whom he had a son Aquilino Ribeiro Machado, born in Paris in 1930, who became the 60th Mayor of Lisbon (1977–1979).

Reviews

[Luís · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic Portuguese author of the XVI century, originally from Montemor-o-Velho, from the coastal region, having died in Almada, near Lisbon, in Extremadura. It is an adventure book, a diary. It talks about the East, India, Malaysia, Sumatra, the Maluku islands, China, and Japan. He also talks about customs, fauna, flora, and the adventures he went through, having done everything like all those who went to the east, who sought to enrich themselves with the spices of these places. It was believed to be a fantasy for a long time, but foreigners proved that what is described here is true.

[Jorge · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fiquei impressionado com o nível de violência que o Fernão Mendes Pinto retrata na Peregrinação. Mesmo descontando o factor histórico e um eventual empolamento das incursões de António de Faria (Fernão ?) sinceramente não imaginava que fosse tão comum as chacinas perpetuadas por toda a gente (portugueses ou não) nem sempre pelos melhores motivos.
Mas também impressiona como os portugueses navegavam por sitios hostis tão longe da sua Pátria há cerca de 500 anos atrás.
A motivação tinha de ser muito elevada. Segundo o cronista essa motivação era sem duvida comercial e a religião apenas um instrumento ao serviço dos negócios. Esta história é evidentemente oposta à que nos ensinavam na escola primária !

[DonQuijote · Rating 3 out of 5]

Libro adaptado del original. Un clásico de la literatura portuguesa de la época de los Descubrimientos. Hay que hacer un esfuerzo de imaginación para poder entender las aventuras que cuenta Fernão en su peregrinaje por tierras asiáticas. Aventuras en las que se embarca en una flotilla que lucha contra piratas, que pasa por naufragios, persecuciones, hambre y toda suerte de penurias. Una angustia, mucha violencia y un tanto de fantasía.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointing beyond words; an uninteresting narration of impossible events that neither entertains, excites or educates the mind. As a serious literary work, it is laughable; as a comedic exercise, it is tiresome. It is beyond me how, in a country of writers and poets, a book such as this can be considered a classic of any kind.

[Joaobispo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit tiresome to read, although it has very interesting glimpses into South Asia sea-fare in the XVI century.

A lot more violent than I expected, in particular from the Portuguese side. The Portuguese expedition killed and robbed innocent, and even desecrated tombs that had priests watching over them (to get the silver buried with the dead).

[Ana Sofia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Adaptação não torna a leitura mais fácil, pelo contrário. Talvez seja um reflexo da época em que a adaptação foi feita

[Filps · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nao o encontro em lado nenhum, vamos fingir que o li e não gostei

[Fernando Pereira · Rating 3 out of 5]

Livro escrito em jeito de diário de viagem que contém o relato das extraordinárias aventuras de Fernão Mendes Pinto no Oriente.
Ainda que o autor possa ter empolado, aqui e ali, as suas histórias, consegue-se apreender o ambiente que se vivia naquela parte do mundo em meados do século XVI.

[nederui]

a biased narration of the adventures of portuguese pirates on eastern shores. light and entertaining.