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This article is about a fictional character. Not much is known of him beyond the fact of a letter which he managed to get out. Vasco Calvo is a character discovered by the narrator of Fernão Mendes Pinto"s fantastical memoir Peregrinação ("Pilgrimage", written in the 1570s, published 1614).
The narrator meets him in 1544 while performing prison-labour on the nearby Great Wall.
The household features a chapel where the exotic Roman faith of the father is maintained and inculcated. China scholar Jonathan Spence says there is no evidence—nor much likelihood—of any mixed Sino-Euro family until much closer to the end of the 16th century.
