Francisco Alvares

(1465 c.-1541)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Alvares, Francisco LBT ID: FrAlvar1541 VIAF ID: 99769999 LOC ID: n91043365	B/BAP: 1465 DIED: 1541
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Portuguese missionary who traveled to Ethiopia and published Verdadeira Informação das Terras do Preste João das Indias (1540).
REFERENCES TO Francisco Alvares: Robert Southey to John Rickman, 16 February 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805