Le <i>Summary of the Armies</i>: une chronique de conquête, sans auteur ni manuscrit original

Abstract

"Le Sumário das armadas" is a long chronicle (150 pages long) and detailed, which recounts the conquest of the Parahyba3 located to the north of the Captaincy of Itamaracá, on the occasion of which, according to Varnhagen, was played The fate of civilization. It is the only known chronicle that traces a conquest in a country like Brazil where they were numerous, the territorial expansion of the Portuguese settlers having been done at the cost of incessant fighting against the indigenous peoples. Antonio Salema, governor for the South of Brazil between 1574 and 1578, reportedly wrote a book retracing the conquest of Cabo Frio on the Tamoios, but the book, if it existed, has disappeared since the 17th century . We also have many Jesuit letters. But being intended for the edification of the fathers of the Society of Jesus on mission in the world, to which they are read, they give little account of the reality of the facts.