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Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a
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who lived in
Portugal
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. An ethnic
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originally from
Moravia
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, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classical texts.
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. He printed on the orders of
Leonor of Viseu
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and worked on the book ''
Vita Christi
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''.
[
His 1506-1507 '' Descripcam'' described how camel caravans carried Saharan salt from ]Oualata
, settlement_type = Communes of Mauritania, Commune and town
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to Timbuktu
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, and then onto Djenne. There the salt was exchanged with the Soninke Wangara
The Wangara (also known as Wakore, Wankori, Ouankri, Wangarawa, Dyula, Jula, Jakhanke, Jalonke) are a subgroup of the Soninke who later became assimilated (at varying degrees) merchant classes that specialized in both Trans Saharan and Secret ...
for gold.
He died in Lisbon in 1518 or 1519.
He work with different intellectuals and artists, some of them were Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
, Hieronymus Münzer Hieronymus Münzer or Monetarius (1437/47 – 27 August 1508) was a Renaissance humanist, physician and geographer who made a famous grand tour of the Iberian peninsula in 1494–5. He was co-author of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
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Münzer was bo ...
and Mathias Ringmann (better known as Philesius Vogesigena who was a translator), particularly the last geographer who sent to Germany (which was part of the Holy Roman Empire
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) the news of the Portuguese discoveries.
See also
* Valentim Fernandes manuscript (''Descripcam'')
References
1510s deaths
German expatriates in Portugal
Printers of incunabula
Year of birth unknown
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Portuguese people of German descent