Fernão Lopes
Fernão Lopes (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃w ˈlɔpɨʃ]; c. 1385 – after 1459) was a Portuguese chronicler appointed by King Edward of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the history of Portugal, but only a part of his work remained.
Fernão Lopes | |
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Supposed portrait of Fernão Lopes, from Nuno Gonçalves's Saint Vincent Panels. | |
| Chief Chronicler of the Kingdom of Portugal | |
| In office 19 March 1434 – 1448 | |
| Monarch | Edward I of Portugal |
| Preceded by | None (position established) |
| Succeeded by | Gomes Eanes de Zurara |
| High Guardian of the Royal Archives | |
| In office c. 1418 – 6 June 1454 | |
| Monarch | Edward I of Portugal |
| Preceded by | Gonçalo Gonçalves |
| Succeeded by | Gomes Eanes de Zurara |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1385 Alandroal?, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Died | c. 1460 (aged 74–75) Alandroal?, Kingdom of Portugal |
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His way of writing was based on oral discourse, and, on every page, it revealed his roots among the common people. He is one of the fathers of the European historiography, or a precursor of the scientific historiography, basing his works always on the documental proof, and, as he said, on his pages "one cannot find the beauty of words but the nudity of the truth." He was an autodidact. By the time of his death, a new kind of knowledge was arising, a Latinized scholasticism that involved imitations of the classics.
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