1561. Carta de Fernão Mendes para Lourenço Pires de Távora, embaixador em Roma.

Private letter from Fernão Mendes, to Lourenço Pires de Távora, ambassador in Rome

The auhor writes the addressee giving him some unconfirmed news about India and commenting on the death of the daughter of the duke and duchess of Ferrara.

The two letters (PSCR0101 and PSCR0102) were sent from Florence by Fernão Mendes to the ambassador of the Portuguese Crown in Rome, Lourenço Pires de Távora, a nobleman who had fought in the Portuguese Africa and India campaigns. In these letters the author gave a wide amount of information he had gathered.

Several letters can be found in the collection "Corpo Cronológico", a documental fund under the custody of the National Archive of Torre do Tombo. It is a collection composed mostly by documentation of judicial and administrative nature, from 1161 to 1696. After the earthquake of 1755 many scattered documents were incorporated in this fund. Just like the name suggests, the main criterion of organization within the Corpo Cronológico is the documents' date.