Talk:Alternative theory of the European discovery of Brazil

Controversies about the "discovery" of Brazil
Acoording to the Wikipedia in Portuguese: ''Vicente Yanéz Pinzón, navegador espanhol, partiu de Palos de la Frontera, Espanha em 19 de novembro de 1499. Em Janeiro de 1500 desembarcou no Brasil no local atualmente chamado Praia do Paraíso, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco. O local foi batizado por Pinzon como Cabo de Santa Maria de la Consolación. Pinzón seguiu sua viagem e em fevereiro de 1500 chegou à foz do Rio Amazonas, que batizou como Mar Dulce. A Viagem de Pinzón e sua chegada ao Brasil não constam da maior parte dos registros oficiais de história do Brasil pois pelo tratado de Tordesilhas as terras descobertas por Pinzón pertenciam, de fato, a Portugal. Mas existe grande probabilidade de que mesmo a esquadra de Pinzón não seria a primeira expedição européia a desembarcar em terras brasileiras. Já em 1325 circulavam em Portugal lendas e mapas sobre uma terra rica em pau-brasil situada além mar. Na disputa com a Espanha por novas terras, os portugueses realizam expedições sigilosas chamadas "de arcano". Assim há relatos de que João Coelho da Porta da Cruz e Duarte Pacheco Pereira teriam estado no Brasil respectivamente em 1493 e 1498. Diogo de Lepe, navegador espanhol, teria atingido a costa brasileira em março de 1500.'' Gimferrer 14:46, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * YES! I've tried to deal with this issue sometyme ago, but someone (can't remember whom...) reverted my changes to the article, giving it its present and Spanish-centred POV form, where it is stated, blumtly and without discussion, that Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, and not Pedro Álvares Cabral, was the discoverer of Brazil. I think I'm going to change this, doing something in the lines of what is done in the Portuguese Language Wikipedia. That is to say, creating a section (or even an article if it's too long) on the Controversies about the "discovery" of Brazil. What does everyone think? The Ogre 19:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. There is a controversy and it should be treated as such, instead of arguing which version is right. Actually, there are at least two navigators who are claimed to reach Brazil before Cabral besides Pinzón: spanish Diego de Lepe and portuguese Duarte Pacheco Pereira, I think they should be mentioned on the new article, too Kensuke 20:00, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It is not only that subject. As far as I know History starts with a civilization with writing hability, not with nomads - that's pre-history. One can talk about these peoples but one cannot say that history starts with these nomad tribes. The best would be to translate the one from the Port. language one. A lot of people could have been in brazil before, everybody knows that because of strategical secrets, Pedro Alvares cabral made the OFFICIAL discovery. And the Tordesilhas triety is in fact, a proof of that. Portugal very probably had discovered Brazil before the triety was made due to sea birds, the sea streams, this is a strong proof and is even studied in schools, I was teached this version. Because it is not recorded (it was a secret), maybe it is also pre-history ;) hugs ppl. -82.155.36.206 00:20, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

"Na disputa com a Espanha por novas terras, os portugueses realizam expedições sigilosas chamadas "de arcano". Assim há relatos de que João Coelho da Porta da Cruz e Duarte Pacheco Pereira teriam estado no Brasil respectivamente em 1493 e 1498. Diogo de Lepe, navegador espanhol, teria atingido a costa brasileira em março de 1500.''"

About João Coelho da Porta da Cruz discoveries and explorations in South America and Caribean Antilles in 1493 we have the testimony of Estevão Fróis in Antillas in 1516.

About Diego de Lepe - He was from Palermo-Sicily?

Discovery of what?
It is curious that someone discovered "Brazil", since Brasil is a politically defined country in South America and the country didn't exist for much time after its "discovery". On the other hand, South America has a land connection to North America, so it is difficult to "discover" one of them without "discovering" the other, unless we accept that whoever "discovered" a tiny bit of the territory in today's northern Brazil didn't discover the whole Brazil. On the other hand (the third hand), I don't know whether Columbus dicovered "America", since he went only as far as Cuba or something.

So: what are we talking about?! Velho 01:47, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * unless we accept that whoever "discovered" a tiny bit of the territory in today's northern Brazil didn't discover the whole Brazil. I think that's it? TransUtopian 14:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

African contacts
I have heard there is also evidence for 14-century contacts between South America and traders from the Mali Empire in west Africa; if so, that should be mentioned here as well. --Russ Blau (talk) 20:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * No longer appropriate with the article name change. Nurg 05:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

English navigator Sancho Brandão?
Would someone please explain how an English navigator could be called Sancho Brandão? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by User: (talk • contribs).
 * Sure, most of the people who contribute to these articles know zilch about the topic and get whatever they write from some outdated school book, or from some stale Encyclopedia article. When a professional historian intervenes with correct info, it is removed as "unhelpful." Hilarious. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.9.30.236 (talk • contribs).

Sancho Brandão is the name that character is known by in Portuguese. The Ogre 13:50, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I know nothing about Sancho Brandao, but in that period names were fluid and would often be adapted by whatever country an individual was visiting or working for. Hence, Giovanni Caboto was known in England as John Cabot. Christophero Colombo was known in Spain as Cristobal Colon. By the quirks of history a few of these names have become the moniker by which that individual is best known. 69.108.230.116 15:30, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

European discovery
I suggest this article should be renamed Controversies about the European discovery of Brazil. Nurg 11:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

No objection, so done. Nurg 05:03, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I strongly object to that. In order to name this article "controversies", there needs to be evidence of a controversy, otherwise it falsely gives the reader that a controversy exists.  This is simply an "alternative theory", and I have renamed the article accordingly.  The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick  22:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Totally Unbalanced Article
This article lends far too much weight to the "alternative" view, given that only one source has been provided, and that in Portuguese too. The Red Hat of Pat Ferrick 22:49, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

--- DUARTE PACHECO PEREIRA - 1498
 * The language of the source material should be irrelevant as long as a known lexicon exists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.123.76 (talk) 08:54, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Duarte pacheco Pereira wrote in this Book "ESMERALDO SITU ORBIS" his own Discovery of many lands in "Grande Terra firme" in west(Great land in west) in the "West"(New World) in 1498, in a Mission of the King Manuel. So, is no any speculation - He spoke and wrote about that and about longitude and latitude data in American shores that he had explored. Before this Voyage, He (Duarte Pacheco Pereira) had Negociate in Tordesillas in 1494 the Line in west. Duarte Pacheco wrote about the Continent and Islands in west wich He himself had explored in his voyage of 1498. He wrote about Brazilian wood there. He was one of the Principal Man in Tordesillas. You believe that a perfect line from Amazonas Delta to "Laguna" inflexion in the southern coast on and the Number of 370 Milles was a "invention of no where" by the Portuguese in Tordesillas?

Remember Columbus two weks with King John II in Lisbon and Santarém(Val Paraíso) after his Firt Voyage in 1493 and what the King said to him about a great Mainland in South(this last statement-document is "disputed" as "evidence", but the first above is clear) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.235.52 (talk) 18:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge into History of Brazil
Seriously, is there any logical reason not to merge this into History of Brazil? It's daft to have it sitting out here on its own when it's so short.Rubble pile (talk) 21:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC) ---

in Carlos Mario Alexandrino da Silva site - his article:

"O historiador português Sousa Viterbo chegou à conclusão de que Mestre João era Joam Farás, bacharel em artes e medicina, físico e cirurgião particular do rei D. Manoel I, O Venturoso. Esse Joam Farás era um judeu converso natural da Galíza, em Espanha, e crê-se que tenha se fixado em Portugal por volta de 1485, tendo sido o tradutor do livro De Situ Orbis (Uma Descrição do Mundo) escrito em latim clássico, no século I d.C., pelo geógrafo romano Pompônio Mela, nascido na Península Ibérica. Foi devido a essa tradução que Sousa Viterbo conseguiu identificar Mestre João, também astrônomo de D. Manoel que diariamente queria saber o que lhe revelavam os astros... Mas, qual é, afinal, a relação existente entre esse Mestre João e a "descoberta" do Brasil? É que ele, na tal carta que enviou ao rei D. Manoel, escreveu o seguinte: " Mande Vossa Alteza trazer um mapa-múndi que tem Pero Vaz Bisagudo e por aí poderá V.ª ver o sítio desta terra; mas aquele mapa-múndi não certifica se esta terra é habitada ou não; é mapa antigo e ali achará Vossa Alteza escrita também a (fortaleza da) Mina"."

- Map of Brazil made by Pero Vaz Bizagudo in 1487(as master John wrote the portuguese Atlas with Brazil lands drawn by Pero Vaz Bisagudo in 1487; this atlas does not only relate if the land is inhabited - words of Master John itself ) - map at the time in Lisbon as it was said in this letter send by Master João(Cosmographer Master John) do the King Manuel I from Brazilian lands, when Pedro Alvares Cabral´s oficial Discovery and foundation of Brazil.(Master John was present in the fleet and in the oficial discovery)

This Letter was in Lisbon historical Arquives of "Torre do Tombo". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.113.163.75 (talk) 19:55, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

"Como no terceiro ano de vosso reinado do ano de Nosso Senhor de mil quatrocentos e noventa e oito, donde nos vossa Alteza mandou descobrir a parte ocidental, passando além a grandeza do mar Oceano, onde é achada e navegada uma tam grande terra firme, com muitas e grandes ilhas adjacentes a ela e é grandemente povoada. Tanto se dilata sua grandeza e corre com muita longura, que de uma arte nem da outra não foi visto nem sabido o fim e cabo dela. É achado nela muito e fino brasil com outras muitas cousas de que os navios nestes Reinos vem grandemente povoados."

Duarte Pacheco Pereira - "Esmeraldo Situ Orbis" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.113.163.75 (talk) 18:43, 12 June 2009 (UTC)