- Source: De Gestis Mendi de Saa
de" target="_blank">De Gestis Mendi de" target="_blank">de Saa is a poem written about 1560 by José de" target="_blank">de Anchieta, a 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary in the Portuguese colony of Brazil, who was called the "Apostle of Brazil." The poem describes the "heroic deeds" of the Portuguese governor Mem de" target="_blank">de Sá and his soldiers "fighting in the immense wilderness" and against the French Protestants.
The wars referred to were actually aimed at the systematic conquest and destruction of Tupi villages and fields and the enslaving of their inhabitants, as a means of "putting an end to cannibalism" and facilitating their Christianization. Anchieta and his fellow-Jesuit Manuel da Nóbrega supported and actively promoted that aggressive policy.
See also
1560 in poetry
References
External links
Portugal in America
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- De Gestis Mendi de Saa
- Mem de Sá
- Tupi people
- Niterói
- Joseph of Anchieta
- List of years in literature
- History of Espírito Santo
- 1563 in poetry
- 1560 in poetry
- Mannerism in Brazil
