| LC control no. | n 91043365 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Alvares, Francisco |
| Variant(s) | Alvarez, Francesco |
| Associated country | Portugal Ethiopia |
| Birth date | 1465~ |
| Death date | 1541~ |
| Place of birth | Coimbra (Portugal) |
| Place of death | Rome (Italy) |
| Profession or occupation | Priests Missionaries Explorers |
| Found in | Verdadeira informação das terras do Preste João das Indias, c1989: t.p. (Francisco Alvares) La historia d'Ethiopia di Francesco Alvarez, 2007: t.p. (Francesco Alvarez) p. 6-7 (Francesco Alvarez, or Francisco Alvares; priest and chaplain to the royal court of Portugal; member of the mission sent by the Portuguese court to Ethiopia; the mission arrived in Ethiopia in 1520; Alvares returned to Portugal in 1527; probably died in 1535, in Rome) Wikipedia, July 25, 2017 (Francisco Álvares (c. 1465 in Coimbra - 1536~1541, Rome) was a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese embassy to emperor Lebna Dengel accompanied by returning Ethiopian ambassador Matheus. The embassy arrived in 1520. Returned to Lisbon in 1526 or 1527 having written a report entitled Verdadeira Informação das Terras do Preste João das Indias ("A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John of the Indies")) |
| Associated language | por |
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