João de Barros (pengucapan bahasa Portugis:[ʒuˈɐ̃w̃ dɨ ˈbaʁuʃ]) (1496 – 20 Oktober 1570), yang disebut Livy dari Portugis, adalah salah satu sejarawan Portugis besar pertama. Ia dikenal karena membuat Décadas da Ásia ("Dekade-dekade dari Asia"), sebuah catatan sejarah bangsa Portugis di India, Asia, dan tenggara Afrika.
Barros:Decadas da Ásia … - links to scans of all 4 Barros-written, and most of the other 20 (post-Barros) volumes of Décadas da Ásia. For the first two Décadas, both the original (1553) edition and the "modernized" 1778-1788 edition are available; for the rest, only the latter edition.
(Portugis)Décadas da Ásia (3nd[butuh klarifikasi] Decade, 1st part, Books 1-5) (even though Google Books description mistakenly says this is the 5th Decade!)
(Portugis) Partial text of the 3rd Década, Book 2, Chapter VIIDiarsipkan 2012-03-26 di Wayback Machine., "in which is described the land of China, and are related certain things of it, and especially of the city of Canton, which Fernão Pires de Andrade has discovered" - one of the earliest European descriptions of the Ming China. Re-typeset in a modern font, with a slightly modernized orthography.
