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Vicente Barbosa
1663–1721
A Portuguese Theatine priest and early travel writer, he left behind a rare account of missionary work in Borneo and the wider Portuguese world of the late 1600s. His surviving book offers a vivid window into faith, travel, and empire at the edge of Europe’s overseas reach.
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Compendio da relaçam, que veyo da India o anno de 1691
by Vicente Barbosa
About the author
Born in Redondo, Portugal, in 1663, Vicente Barbosa was a Portuguese Theatine priest. Reference works consistently describe him as a religious writer connected to the Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence, and place his death in Lisbon in 1711.
He is known today for Compendio da relaçam, que veyo da India o anno de 1691, published in Lisbon in 1692. The book draws on reports from Theatine envoys and centers on missionary efforts in Borneo, making it a small but valuable record of Portuguese religious and colonial activity in Southeast Asia.
Some library records list his death year as 1721, while several biographical reference sources give 1711. Because the sources disagree, that detail should be treated with caution. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the pages reviewed.