Arthur Felipe Grando Leal

A person whom everyone recognizes, appreciates, speaks of and yet nobody – or almost nobody – really knows who he was. St. Nicholas of Bari is the famous saint who distributes Christmas gifts and, curiously, …

If the poet Luis de Camões called the Portuguese overseas adventures “daring Christian feats,”1 what words would he use in his writings to refer to the holy exploits that marked the fourth century from end …

Stefan Zweig, the world-renowned Austrian writer, recounts in the preface to his book on Ferdinand Magellan what motivated him to study the adventures of the Age of Discovery and the Age of Exploration. One day, …