RENDER UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS WHICH ARE CAESAR'S

Vietnamese Script

Lisbon, Portugal, 2017 - Leica M7, Summilux 35, Kodak Portra 160 Born in Guarda, Portuguese Jesuit Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) should be recognized as the damn great main inventor of "Chữ Quốc Ngữ", the Vietnamese romanized script that was thus brilliantly designed 4 centuries ago and progressively replaced the former "Chữ Nôm" ideographic script in the 1910s. "His death occurred on Dec. 15, 1625, off the coast of Hội An. He was on board a vessel that was receiving products coming from Macau and sank during an unexpected storm, killing all its passengers."