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Biography of Bartolomeu Dias de Novais
Name: Bartolomeu Dias de Novais
Birth Date: N/A
Death Date: May, 1500
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Portuguese
Gender: Male
Occupations: explorer
Bartolomeu Dias de Novais
Bartolomeu Dias de Novais (died 1500) was a Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope and opened the sea route to the Indian Ocean.It is not known when or where Bartolomeu Dias was born, and no information has survived about his early life. He emerged from obscurity only in 1487, when he sailed from Portugal with orders from King John II to continue exploration beyond a landmark raised by Diogo Cão in 1486 on the coast of South-West Africa. The King instructed Dias to discover a sea route to India which bypassed Moslem-dominated routes between the East and Europe and to seek information about the Christian empire of Abyssinia.Journey of DiscoveryIn command of two caravels, each of about 100 modern tons, and of a storeship of about double that size, Dias left the Tagus River in August 1487. Beyond the farthest point reached by Cão, Dias made …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…all hands; among those lost was Dias. Further Reading There are numerous books on the Portuguese voyages of exploration at the end of the 15th century. Recommended are Edgar Prestage, The Portuguese Pioneers (London: 1933) and "The Search for the Sea Route to India" in Arthur Percival Newton, ed. Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930); Mary Seymour Lucas, Vast Horizons (New York: The Viking Press, 1943); Boies Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952); and Gerald R. Crone, The Discovery of the East (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972).Probably the best account of Dias's voyage is in Eric Axelson, Congo to Cape: Early Portuguese Explorers (New York: 1974). Boies Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance (1955), and J. H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaisance (1963), are excellent surveys of European overseas expansion that include mention of Dias. Useful background is provided in Eric Axelson, South-East Africa, 1488-1530 (1940).
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