A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries Lopez

A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding CountriesDrawn Out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese, Duarte Lopez, by Filippo Pigafetta, in Rome, 1591\nAuthor(s): Duarte Lopez, Filippo Pigafetta, Margarite Hutchinson, Thomas Fowell Buxton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108082747, 978-1108082747\nSynopsis\nIn this 1591 work, the Italian mathematician Filippo Pigafetta [tel] explains that he was ordered by Pope Sixtus V to transcribe the account of Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese trader who had spent twelve years in the Congo. Lopez had hoped that the pope would give him support in his mission to the Congolese, but this was not forthcoming: he returned to Africa, and was not heard from again. The work was first translated into English by the English antiquary Abraham Hartwell: this translation with notes by Margarite Hutchinson was published in 1881. Lopez's narrative gives .