Francisco Alvares
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
Francisco Alvares
Birth
1460
Period of Activity
. He wrote a lengthy account of his eventual six year stay 1520-1526 in highland Ethiopia, the first comprehensive original work.
Death
He died before 1542
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Names
- Francisco Alvares
Dates
Birth: 1460
Period of activity: 1520–1542
Occupation
a priest
Residence
He was in the court of King Lǝbna Dǝngǝl for six years
Faith
Catholicism
Nationality
Portugal
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Beckingham, C. 1961. ‘Notes on an Unpublished Manuscript of Francisco Alvares : Verdadera informaçam das terras do Preste Joam das Indias’, Annales d’Éthiopie, 4 (1961), 139–154.
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Boavida, I., H. Pennec, M. J. Ramos, and C. J. Tribe 2011. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622, eds I. Boavida, H. Pennec, and M. J. Ramos, tr. C. J. Tribe, I, Hakluyt Society, Series III, 23 (London: Ashgate, 2011).
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Boavida, I., H. Pennec, M. J. Ramos, and C. J. Tribe 2011. Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622, eds I. Boavida, H. Pennec, and M. J. Ramos, tr. C. J. Tribe, II, Hakluyt Society, Series III, 24 (London: Ashgate, 2011).
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Beckingham, C. F. and G. W. B. Huntingford 1961. The Prester John of the Indies: A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, Being the narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, Written by Father Francisco Alvares, The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) revised and edited with additional material, eds C. F. Beckingham and G. W. B. Huntingford, I, Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, 114 (Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961).
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Kleiner, M. 2003. ‘Alvares, Francisco’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 213b–215a.
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 4.8.2016
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