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Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460 – 1533),〔''Revista de História'', ed. 69-70 (1967), p. 513. Eurípedes Simões de Paula, Universidade de São Paulo. Departamento de História, Sociedade de Estudos Históricos (Brazil)〕 called the Portuguese Achilles (''Aquiles Lusitano'') by the poet Camões,〔Luís de Camões, in ''The Lusiads'' (first printed in 1572), Canto X, 12: ''E canta como lá se embarcaria Em Belém o remédio deste dano, Sem saber o que em si ao mar traria, O grão Pacheco, Aquiles Lusitano. O peso sentirão, quando entraria, O curvo lenho e o férvido Oceano, Quando mais n' água os troncos que gemerem Contra sua natureza se meterem.'' Translation by Robert Ffrench Duff, in ''The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse'' (1880), p. 365: ''She sang how in his ship a man would go From Belem to avenge the cruel shame. The weight it bears the ocean shall not know, That great Pacheco who shall justly claim Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name; When he embarks, the surging waves his weight Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great, And in the water sink below its usual state.''〕〔Manuel Mira ''The forgotten Portuguese'' (1998), p. 153〕 was a Portuguese sea captain, soldier, explorer and cartographer. He travelled particularly in the central Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde islands, along the coast of West Africa and to India. His accomplishments in strategic warfare, exploration, mathematics and astronomy were of an exceptional level. == Background == Pacheco Pereira was the son of João Pacheco and Isabel Pereira.〔Portuguese historian Armando Cortesão asserts that Duarte Pacheco was the son of Gonçalo Pacheco, a treasurer of the Casa de Ceuta, who famously outfitted the slave-raiding fleet of Dinis Eanes de Grã that devastated the Bay of Arguin in 1444/45. See Armando Cortesão (1931) "Subsídios para a história do Descobrimento de Cabo Verde e Guiné", ''Boletim da Agencia Geral das Colonias'', No. 75, as reprinted in 1975, ''Esparsos'', vol. 1, Coimbra.(p.10 )〕 In his youth he served as the King of Portugal's personal squire. In the year of 1455, having graduated with honors, he was awarded a study fellowship from the monarch himself. Later on, in 1488 he explored the west coast of Africa. His expedition fell ill with fever and lost their ship. Pacheco Pereira was rescued from the island of Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea by Bartolomeu Dias when Dias was returning from rounding the Cape of Good Hope for the first time. The knowledge he collected from Dias expedition as well as his own explorations granted him the post of official geographer of the Portuguese monarch. In 1494 he signed the Pope-sanctioned Treaty of Tordesillas, which shared the non-Christian world between Portugal and Spain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duarte Pacheco Pereira」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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