The Ocean of Glory and Dishonor. The Mysterious Murder of the 16th Century and the Era of Great Geographical Discoveries

Was there an alternative to the creation of European colonial empires in the 16th century? Why did the glorious era of the Great Geographical Discoveries turn into the disgrace of plantation, plunder, and slavery, for which European countries now have... to apologize? Were there even people in the 16th century who thought not about conquests, but about studying and learning about each other? Of course, there were, and one of them was the Portuguese humanist Damian de Gois, whose mysterious death remains unsolved. Damian was friends with Erasmus of Rotterdam, performed secret missions for kings, and wrote the official chronicle of Portugal, but at the end of his life found himself in the dungeons of the Inquisition on charges of heresy and died mysteriously. This book presents a new vibrant figure of the Renaissance era to the Russian reader and helps to uncover a 400-year-old murder.