Departure of Fernão Mendes Pinto for India

On March 11, 1537, the Portuguese explorer and adventurer Fernão Mendes Pinto departed from Lisbon for India. This epic journey, fraught with misfortune, would give rise to his masterpiece "Peregrinação" (Pilgrimage), one of the most extraordinary travel accounts in world literature and a pillar of 16th-century exoticism.