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🐘 First European Account of the African Elephant (1499): Brought to Europe by King Manuel I of Portugal.
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Further Reading
- How King Manuel I of Portugal sent an elephant as a gift to Pope ... (substack.com)
- The Pope's elephant - Roger Crowley (blogspot.com)
- a journal of the first voyage of vasco da gama, 1497-1499. (gutenberg.org)
- Manuel I of Portugal - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- Manuel I | King of Portugal & Navigator of the Age of Discovery (britannica.com)
- History of elephants in Europe - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
- 14 From Marco Polo to Manuel I of Portugal: The Image of the East ... (doi.org)
- TIL Louis XIV had an elephant at Versailles, a gift from ... - Reddit (reddit.com)
- Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe (thewalters.org)
- True and Proper Pictures | Strange and Wonderful - Oxford Academic (oup.com)