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The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

Damião de Góis

Born in Alenquer, Portugual, Damião de Góis (1502-1574) was a humanist philosopher and historian.

Damião's Legatio was an important early modern source on Ethiopian Christianity. It was published in 1532 on the heels of the recent Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia (1520-1526) (led by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira and recorded by Francisco Álvares). This text tells of the Abyssinian Embassy arriving in Portugal in 1513. The account was quickly translated into English by John More.

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Map 5.1 : Author Origin and Travels

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Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465-1530)

Francisco Álvares (1465-1540)

Joao de Castro (1500-1548)

Damião de Góis (1502-1574)

John More (1509-1547)
William Waterman
Gerardus Mercator
Abraham Ortelius
Ruy González de Clavijo
Richard Hakluyt
Edward Webbe
Duarte Lopes
Filippo Pigafetta
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
George Abbot
William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe
Richard Johnson (1573-1659)

Benedict Goes
Father Fernão Guerreiro
Jodocus Hondius
Luis de Urreta
Father Nicolau Godinho (Nicholas Godigno)
Samuel Purchas
Manuel de Almeida
Tirso de Molina (Gabriel Téllez)
Nicolas Visscher
Peter Heylin
Balthazar Tellez
Hiob Ludolf
Philippe Avril
Marko of the Topozersky Monastery

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