(Santarém, Portugal, 1500 - Coimbra, Portugal, 1559)
"Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (c. 1500 - 1559) fue un cronista portugués."
"Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (Santarém, c. 1500 - 1559 in Coimbra) was a Portuguese historian in the early Renaissance.His "History of the discovery and conquest of India", full of geographic and ethnographic objective information, was widely translated throughout Europe."