Portuguese Poster Exhibition “Fernao, Are You Lying?”

Date: May 24 to June 16, 2010
Venue: Main Library Foyer

In the course of his travels, Pinto visited China, where he claimed, among other extraordinary things, to have been a forced laborer on the Great Wall. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir "Peregrination" in 1614, one of the most widely read travel books in early modern Europe. The exhibition is sponsored by Instituto Camoes, a branch of the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is supported by the Unive