Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Duarte Pacheco Pereira
	Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Captain-major of Portuguese Gold Coast
	In office; 1519–1522
Monarch	Manuel I of Portugal
Preceded by	Fernão Lopes Correia
Succeeded by	Afonso de Albuquerque
Personal details
Born	1460; Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	1533 (aged 72–73); Kingdom of Portugal
Spouse	Antónia de Albuquerque
Children	João Fernandes Pacheco; Jerónimo Pacheco; Maria de Albuquerque; Isabel de Albuquerque; Garcia Pacheco; Gaspar Pacheco; Duarte Pacheco; Lisuarte Pacheco
Military service
Allegiance	Portuguese Empire
Battles/wars	Battle of Cochin

Duarte Pacheco Pereira (Portuguese pronunciation: [duˈaɾtɨ pɐˈʃeku pɨˈɾɐjɾɐ]; c. 1460 – 1533),^[1] called the Portuguese Achilles (Aquiles Lusitano) by the poet Camões,^[2]^[3] 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.

^ 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)
^ 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

[1] 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)

[2] 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.

[3] Manuel Mira The forgotten Portuguese (1998), p. 153

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Duarte Pacheco Pereira
Duarte Pacheco Pereira

Captain-major of Portuguese Gold Coast
In office 1519–1522
Monarch	Manuel I of Portugal
Preceded by	Fernão Lopes Correia
Succeeded by	Afonso de Albuquerque

Personal details
Born	1460 Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal
Died	1533 (aged 72–73) Kingdom of Portugal
Spouse	Antónia de Albuquerque
Children	João Fernandes Pacheco Jerónimo Pacheco Maria de Albuquerque Isabel de Albuquerque Garcia Pacheco Gaspar Pacheco Duarte Pacheco Lisuarte Pacheco
Military service
Allegiance	Portuguese Empire
Battles/wars	Battle of Cochin