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Valentim Fernandes (died 1518 or 1519) was a

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who lived in

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. An ethnic

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originally from

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, he moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 1495 where he lived and worked for 23 years, he was a writer and a translator of various classical texts.
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. He printed on the orders of

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and worked on the book '' Vita Christi''. His 1506-1507 '' Descripcam'' described how camel caravans carried Saharan salt from

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, and then onto Djenne. There the salt was exchanged with the

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for gold. He died in Lisbon in 1518 or 1519. He worked with different intellectuals and artists, including

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and Mathias Ringmann (better known as

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who was a translator).

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