Again, Vasco da Gama's plans were in part made with the valuable assistance of a Jew, a profound scholar, Abraham Zacuto, sometime professor of astronomy at the University of Salamanca, and after the banishment of Jews from Spain, astronomer and Chronographer to Manuel the Great, of Portugal.
"Jewish Literature and Other Essays"
Gustav Karpeles
The biographer and Chronographer would apparently have been less flattered than surprised to hear that he would be remembered rather as the creator of Frankford, Mountferrers, and Geraldine, than as the chronicler of King Brute, Queen Elizabeth, and King James.
"The Age of Shakespeare"
Algernon Charles Swinburne