Note 520 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80] (continued 3)
Reading edition
Cf. caps. 14, 70, 88, 114, 126, 198, 204. The complaint is echoed by almost every Portuguese traveller of the day. Bishop Osorio refers to the fidei faciendae difficultas; even the truthful and exact Francisco Alvarez fears his readers’ disbelief.