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标题：Unicorns and Bezoars in a Portuguese house in Rome. António da Fonseca’s Portuguese Inventories
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作者：James Nelson Novoa
期刊名称：Ágora: Estudos Clássicos em Debate
印刷版ISSN：0874-5498
出版年度：2012
卷号：14.1
页码：91-111
出版社：Universidad de Aveiro, Departamento de Línguas e Culturas
摘要：The article deals with lists of objects which belonged to an important Portuguese banker in Rome, Antonio da Fonseca. The inventories, compiled some months before his death in February 1588, reveal a man of refined tastes and interests. In particular they indicate an abundance of objects of oriental provenance which can be deemed exotic, bezoar stones and some supposedly made from unicorn horns. The items contained in his home reflect his interests and activities as a prominent Portuguese merchant banker, linked to an empire which extended itself to the orient, to Africa, and the Indian Ocean
关键词：Unicorn; bezoar; Rome; Portuguese; inventory