Sea View of the National Park of Monte Pascoal, in the south of BahiaOne of the most famous documents of our history is the Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha addressed to the King of Portugal, Dom Manuel.
Called by brazilian historian Capistrano de Abreu as the Certificate of Birth of Brazil, the lengthy and luxuriant post of Caminha, initiated the April 25 and completed on 1 May 1500, was lost for nearly three centuries, to be rediscovered in on February 19, 1773, by Jose Seabra da Silva, guard-mor of the Archive of the Tower of Tombo in Lisbon.
The original letter only came to public, with its full content, in 1853, because, in a previous edition, in 1817, the priest Manuel Aires the couple, responsible for the publication, decided disable the document history, blaming "excerpts least accordance with the decorum ."
A letter less well known, however, of Mestre João (Master John), scientist accompanying the expedition, Pedro Alvares Cabral, is invaluable to the clarification of the true paternity of achamento of Brazil. Matches, so to speak, a kind of examination of DNA, indicating that there is 99% likelihood of Cabral is not the legitimate father of the child.
This critical document, filed in the same tower of Tombo, Portugal, it was found by one of the greatest historians Brazilians, Adolfo Francisco, Varnhagen, that the published for the first time in 1834.
Reading the letter of Master John, it is clear that the discovery of Brazil was not casual, and the former is April 22, 1500.
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original text translated by the Google translator
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