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Alfredo de Mello: Garcia de Orta |
 | | In 1563, this illustrious doctor, old-time professor of the University of Lisbon, Garcia de Orta gave to print a notorious text, where the purpose of the drugs and medicinal applications of India confront two models of knowledge: the old established texts, and the experimental. |
 | | Brianda was a relative of Garcia and on account of this, they required a special license to get married, as was revealed by Catarina while she was being tortured by the Inquisitors. |
 | | Various Ortas and Solis were imprisoned, and the great Garcia de Orta, twelve years after his death, was disinterred by the inquisitors, who could not rest until his bones were rendered to ashes.. |
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