The most highly sought ( and expensive ) instruments come from Italy and include basses made by Giovanni Paolo Maggini, Gaspar da Salo, the Testore family ( Carlo Antonio, Carlo Giuseppe, Gennaro, Giovanni, Paulo Antonio ), Celestino Puolotti, and Matteo Gofriller.

Gaspar da Cruz ( c. 1520 – 1570 ), who worked all over the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia, was probably the first Christian missionary to preach ( unsuccessfully ) in Cambodia.

* Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, writes about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China, including the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

Described in detail by eyewitness Thomé Lopes and chronicler Gaspar Correia as one that is unequalled in cold-blooded cruelty, da Gama looted the ship with over 400 pilgrims on board including 50 women, locked in the passengers, the owner and an ambassador from Egypt and burnt them to death.

* 1555-The first, failed, attempt to set up a Christian mission in Cambodia, by Dominican Gaspar da Cruz.

Catholic religious orders that participated and supported the exploration, evangelizing and pacifying, were mostly Dominicans, Carmelites, Franciscans and Jesuits, for example Francis Xavier, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Eusebio Kino or Gaspar da Cruz.

It was during this period ( in 1555-1556 ) that the Portuguese friar Gaspar da Cruz made the first attempt to introduce Christianity into the country.

Meanwhile, the humanist chronicler Gaspar Frutuoso, writing in the second volume of his work Saudades da Terra mentioned: " These islands, known as Selvagens, apparently were discovered by Castilians, have a Castilian owner, as also Madeira and Azores archipelagos ... which will belong to this glorious and powerful Catholic King, the greatest in the world ".

Its use may have expanded across continents, e. g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia ( writing in the 1550s ), claims that in 1502, the Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a " white cloth tied to a stick ", " as a sign of peace ", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

* Deus, Frei Gaspar da Madre de, " História da Capitania de São Vicente ", Ed.

Among others who dealt with the East are Castanheda, Antonio Galvão, Gaspar Correia, Bras de Albuquerque, Frei Gaspar da Cruz, and Frei João dos Santos.

Cantino planisphere 1502, earliest surviving chart showing the explorations of Christopher Columbus | Columbus to Central America, Gaspar Corte-Real | Corte-Real to Newfoundland, Vasco da Gama | Gama to India and Pedro Álvares Cabral | Cabral to Brazil.

An interesting European view of the events can be found in the account of Galeote Pereira ( one of the Portuguese sailors captured in March 1549 ), and in the book of the Dominican Gaspar da Cruz ( 1569 ), who apparently had access not only to Pereira's story but to other reports as well.

* ( Includes an English translation of Galeote Pereira's report and Gaspar da Cruz ' book, with C. R.

Transcribing the works of Father Gaspar Frutuoso, Francisco Gomes documented the arrival of the crew of the nau Nossa Senhor da Misericórida.

The area remained uninhabited for many decades until the 16th Century, as Father Gaspar Frutuoso noted is his historical tome Saudades da Terra and where he mentioned the community but omitted whether it was populated.

Father Gaspar Frutuoso, the celebrated Portuguese historian, priest and humanist, best known for his six-part tome Saudades da Terra that documented the genealogy and history of the Azores archipelago, recounted the conflicts, histories and personalities of the region.

The historian Gaspar Frutuoso, noted that the Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição ( Church of Our Lady of the Conception ) was constructed with three naves, and five columns on each side, and chapel located on its eastern quarter.

The community's primitive church ( dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Luz ) was constructed shortly after the first settlers established their homes, and was a large three-nave over five pillars, sturdy and well constructed ( as the historian Gaspar Frutuoso recounted in his Saudades da Terra ).

The history of the parish extends back to the 15th century, and was first chronicled in Saudades da Terra by Gaspar Frutuoso.

According to Gaspar Frutuoso in his work Saudades da Terra written in the 1570s, the Portuguese navigator João Vaz Corte-Real was in 1472 granted lands in the Azores by the king of Portugal, because of his discovery of the Terras do Bacalhau.

Other explorers included Giovanni da Verrazzano, sponsored by France ; the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-Real in Newfoundland ; and Samuel de Champlain ( 1567 – 1635 ) who explored Canada.

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He is claimed to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an undocumented expedition to Terra Nova do Bacalhau ( literally, " New Land of the Codfish ") in the early 1470s, by Gaspar Frutuoso in his 1570s book Saudades da Terra.

* Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A. D.

* probable – Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( b. 1450 )

** Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1501 )

* 1500 — Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real.

* 1502 — Miguel Corte-Real set out for New England in search of his brother, Gaspar.

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During the early 20th century, Edmund B. Delabarre associated the Dighton Rock with the lost Portuguese navigators Miguel Corte-Real and his brother Gaspar.

* Gaspar Corte-Real ( c. 1450 – 1501 ), Portuguese explorer and brother of Miguel

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Cantino ’ s diligence is shown in two of his letters to the Duke, dated from 17th and 18 October 1501, where he describes, amongst other things, hearing Gaspar Corte-Real detailing his latest voyage to Newfoundland ( Terra Nova ) to King Manuel I of Portugal.

The map makes clear that Greenland had been rediscovered and charted for Portugal, presumably by João Vaz Corte-Real during his service with Pining and Pothorst's 1473 expedition for King Christian I of Denmark or by his son Gaspar during the latter's own 1500 and 1501 expeditions for King Manuel I of Portugal.