Saudades da Terra series online
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Cheri Mello
Cheri
Denis...@aol.com
Wow, I didn't realize that Luis Martins had all of them in PDF format! Luis is on this list too. Because these are the original books that Dr. Fructoso wrote, they are in Portuguese.
Cheri
rosemary...@ppwi.org
is. I clicked on the site and got to the book. It really is
fabulous. But is this for a specific Island only or a specific family
line? Sorry, I don't read Portugese (bummer).
By the way, I love reading these posts. Thanks everyone.
RoseMary
On Sep 7, 8:41 am, Denise1...@aol.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I came across this web site a few months ago and it seems to have 6 volumes
> of Saudades da Terra, in Portuguese. I have a hard copy of Livro 4 as well
> as Edna P. Kern's English volume of the same. Edna's email address
> (_NERKU...@aol.com_ (mailto:NERKU...@aol.com) ) is no longer in service and I have not
> seen her on the list in quite a while.
>
> _http://www.azoreangenealogy.com/_(http://www.azoreangenealogy.com/)
>
> You have to click on Biblioteca Acoreana and then click on Saudades da Terra.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Denise D'Antona
>
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Cheri Mello
Here's what I know about it. Others know more.
Dr. Gaspar Fructuoso was a Catholic priest in the 1500 or 1600s, I think. He got the title of "Doctor" because he was an educated person of the time. He wrote the "Saudades da Terra" set. I know "Livro 4" (Book 4) covers Sao Miguel. I think other books in the series cover other islands. The Madeiran DNA administrator told me that there's also one on Madeira too (I don't know which book/volume).
I tried googling "Gaspar Frutuoso" and there's a Wikipedia entry in Portuguese: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_Frutuoso. I hit the translate link and now he's "Fruitful Caspar" (um, is this Caspar the Friendly Ghost long lost cousin? LOL) Anyways, I'll try to clean it up. Some words I can't translate. Ignore any hyperlinks that may appear, as I'm cutting and pasting part of it.
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Gaspar Frutuoso (Ponta Delgada, 1522 - Ribeira Grande, 1591), historian, priest, humanist, bachelor in arts and theology for the University of Salamanca and doctor in theology, was the first Azorean historian.
Author of the workmanship Saudade da Terra (Homesicknesses of the Land), which in its 6 books includes one detailed topographical and historical description of the archipelagoes of the Azores, Madeira and the Canaries, stops beyond multiple references the Cape Verde and to other Atlantic regions. This abrangência (?) makes of Gaspar Frutuoso a true insular chronologist(?), since his workmanship interests the knowledge of all the Macaronésia.
The 5th book contains one of the most obtained quinhentistas (?) pastoral histories, workmanship of great literary value that Gaspar Furtuoso affirms, stops beyond historian, as a merit writer.
Biography
Gaspar Frutuoso was born in the year of 1522 in then the village of Ponta Delgada, island of Sao Miguel, son of Gaspar Dias , merchant and agricultural proprietor, and of his wife Isabel Fernandes. The inexistence of known coevos (?) registers does not allow to determine the date of birth. (I think that means there are no baptism books for 1522). The parents of Gaspar Frutuoso were considered rich and part of the small local aristocracy.
Little is known on the youth of Frutuoso, only knowing some references uncertain to have managed lands of hiss parents. The first safe registers certify his school registration in the University of Salamanca in the year of 1548, studying arts and theology. The registers of the same University demonstrate even so that Gaspar Frutuoso, in set with other Azorean pupils, frequentou, apparently with interruptions, the studies up to 1558, year where he got the baccalaureate in Arts and Theology, as dated minutes of 9 of February of that year. (I think that means the he took 10 years to do his studies because of frequent interruptions?) He was commanded minister for 1554 return, apparently in a visit Sao Miguel, since the register in Salamanca in the school year of 1554/1555 gives it for the first time as presbitero to bachiller.
In Salamanca he studied under the orientation of the celebrated theologist Domingos de Soto, confessor of Carlos V and envoy to Council of Trent.
He returned to Sao Miguel, the the parish in the freguesia of
Santa Cruz, the village of the
Lagoa, where referring registers for it cultivated to the years of 1558 exist the
1560. (when consulting the registers refer to the years of 1558-1560?)
In 1560 he left for Salamanca, perhaps to obtain the doctor degree. In this year, he changed to Bragança, starting to be the next collaborator to the bishop D. Julião de Alva, remaining there up to 1563.
The register of when he attained the degree of Doctor is not known, even so it is stated from 1565. It will be able to have aquired from the University of Évora, then an institution of the Company of Jesus, which would explain its deep linking subsequent to the Jesuits.
By letter of confirmation of May 20, 1565, he was nominated vicar of the Matriz of Nossa Senhora da Estrela of then the village of the Ribeira Grande, position that lasted 26 years, until his death on the Aug. 24, 1591. He was intombed in the church.
Saudades da Terra (Homesicknesses of the Land)
For the importance for the knowledge of Atlantic history, Saudades da Terra contains one such quantity of information on genealogy, natural history, geography and topography that Gaspar Frutuoso firms fully as the type of the humanist of the Renaissance, encyclopedia, literary, artist and musician, intent observer of the natural phenominas, being worried about alquímicas experimentations and speculating with rightness in the domains of geology, biology, mineralogy and petrography.
The workmanship is composed for 6 books, the majority of which dealing with genealogies and historical aspects. The exception is book 5, that it has fictional characters, describing, in pastoral style, the history of two friends forced to live far from home, an apparent autobiography of the author and his friend of studies, the micaelense doctor Gaspar Gonçalves.
Gaspar Frutuoso apparently intended to publish his workmanship, since he clearly select the manuscript, with multiple revisions (?) made for its fist. (?) For reasons that are not clear, but perhaps that they are to the Castilian occupation, he did not make it, bequeathing it, with the bookstore, to the College of the Jesuits of Ponta Delgada, where the manuscript was kept up to 1760, which was the date of the expulsion of the Company. (the Jesuits?) Later it finally passed to the particular hands of, that they had severely restricted the access to the workmanship, being donated to the General Meeting of Ponta Delgada and incorporated in the Public Library of that city, where today if rests.
Diverse editions exist to parcel out of the Saudades da Terra, with integral editions, of the responsibility of the Cultural Institute of Ponta Delgada, from
1966. (I guess that means all the revisions).
Bibliographical Information
A biographical study of Doctor Gaspar Frutuoso, was done by the author of the historical and micaelense investigator Rodrigo Rodrigues, was published in addition to the edition of 1923 of the 3rd book of the Saudades da Terra. The same study was published, with notes of Bernardine João of Oliveira Rodrigues, as:
- Biographical notice of the Dr. Gaspar Frutuoso, Cultural Institute of Ponta Delgada, 109 pp. + 3 diag., Ponta Delgada, 1991.