Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537– after 1605) was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer. He is best known as the author of the second book on China that was published in Europe, and the first author of such a book to obtain wide circulation outside of Portugal.The foremost scholar of the European literature about Asia, Donald F. Lach, noted in 1965 about Escalante, \"Very little is known about his biography\". However, a significant amount of research on Escalante, spearheaded by Rufo de Francisco, was carried out in the late 20th century."@en }
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- Bernardino_de_Escalante abstract "Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537– after 1605) was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer. He is best known as the author of the second book on China that was published in Europe, and the first author of such a book to obtain wide circulation outside of Portugal.The foremost scholar of the European literature about Asia, Donald F. Lach, noted in 1965 about Escalante, \"Very little is known about his biography\". However, a significant amount of research on Escalante, spearheaded by Rufo de Francisco, was carried out in the late 20th century.".