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Portuguese Renaissance writers

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16th-century Portuguese poet
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
Gil Vicente
Portuguese writer (1465-1536)
Fernão Mendes Pinto
Portuguese explorer and writer (1509–1583)
Luís Fróis
Portuguese missionary (1532–1597)
Duarte Barbosa
Portuguese explorer and writer (1480–1521)
Garcia de Orta
Portuguese botanist, physician, herbalist and naturalist (1501 – 1568)
Pero Vaz de Caminha
Portuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Portuguese explorer
Tomé Pires
Portuguese apothecary and diplomat
António Ferreira
Portuguese writer (1528-1569)
João de Castro
Portuguese explorer
Francisco Sanches
Portuguese philosopher
Manuel da Nóbrega
Portuguese Jesuit priest (1517 – 1570)
Bernardim Ribeiro
Portuguese poet and writer
Diogo do Couto
historian
Francisco de Holanda
Portuguese artist (1517-1584)
Gaspar Correia
Portuguese historian (1492–c.1563)
Garcia de Resende
Portuguese writer, poet, editor, musician and architect
João Rodrigues
Portuguese missionary
Francisco Álvares
16th century Portuguese missionary and explorer
Rui de Pina
Portuguese chronicler (1440–1522)
Fernão Lopes de Castanheda
Portuguese historian
André de Resende
father of archaeology in Portugal, a Dominican friar
Jerónimo Osório
Portuguese historian
Gonçalo Anes Bandarra
Portuguese writer
Gaspar da Cruz
Portuguese Dominican friar and travel writer (c.1520–1570)
Samuel Usque
Portuguese marrano Jewish author
Francisco de Moraes
Portuguese writer
Domingo Paes
Portuguese explorer
António Galvão
Portuguese administrator and historian
Jerónimo Corte-Real
Portuguese writer (1533-1588)
Cristóvão Falcão
Portuguese writer
Fernão Nunes
Portuguese explorer
António de Gouveia
Portuguese educator and writer
Giovanni Cataldo Parisio
Italian writer and politician
Diogo de Teive
Humanist
Galeote Pereira
Portuguese explorer