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‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎57] (78/508)

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into the e ast-indie s. 57
ded to them. This Temple is dedicated to Brahmh > who, as I
faid before, they hold to be the fame with Pythagoras although
of theorigine of Brama, and how he was produc'd of the firft
Caufc, or elfe of the firfi: Matter, andhdw they take this for
one of the Elements, and a thoufand other extravagances 5 they
tell long Fables, which do not agree to Pythagoras a meer man 5
but for all this tfiey confound the two Names, and 'tis no great
inatter to reconcile them herein, after the fame manner that
our ancient Geritiles agreed in their Jupiter, taken fometimes
for one of the Elements, and fometimeshiftorically for an anci
ent King one of ^^s Sons 5 and in divers other like names,
in reference to Hiftory and Philfophy they had double^ allegori
cal and myfterious fignifications. Concerning the Genealogy
pf Bramh, and the other fabulous Indian Gods, and what be
longs to their vain Theology, I tefer the Reader to the Books
pf Father Francefio'Negrone , or Negraore, as the Portugals call
iiim, who writes fully thereof in his Chronicles of the things done K,
by thofe of his Order in lWi<i,written in the Language 5
and I think he is the firft, and perhaps, the onely Modern Wn- ^
ter who hath given account of this matter in Europe, The faid ' * ^
Father having been affifted therein, for information by mofb
fit and fufficient Interpreters, namely, the Fathers of his own
Religion, good Divines, fkill'd in the Indian Tongue, and pet-
fedly intelligent of thefe matters 5 who alfo read and interpre
ted the very Books of the Indians to him, and were likewife his
interpreters in the difcourfes which he had often with the learned
Indians concerning their Religion, as himfelf frequently told
sne. Befides which, he wanted not other helps, becaufe being
appointed Hiftoriographer to his Order, he was abundantly
fupply'd with what was needful to that Office > he convers'd long
in the Kingdom of fiifraga, where the Religion and Sciences
of the Indians have their Principal Seat 5 as alfo in the Illand of
Zeilan^ which many take to be the ancient Tabrobana, and in
6ther Countries for this very purpofe. He made many peregri
nations exprelly to fee places and things conducing thereunto,
and was affifted by the Vice-Roys themfelves and Governoura
of Provinces, fubjeft to the Portugals , who fent him into
all places accompany'd oftentimes with whole bands of Soul-
diers, where the wayes were not fecure 5 in brief, without fpa-
ring coft, pains, or diligence, he profeiledly intended^ this bu-
finefs for many years together, with all kind of convenience and
authority. Laftly, he was fome years fince fent by his Order
into Europe, in Order to print his Works; and in the year 16195
as I came through Perfia, I faw him at Sphahan ^ and during his
ihort abode there by means of a Friend got a fight of his Papers,
but had not time to read them, as I defir'd. He went thence
direftiy to Rome, whither I gave him fome Letters to certain
Friends and Relations of mine to be civil to him there,as I know
they werei and after fome years (bjourning atKome^ whilftl
I was

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The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.

Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.

There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.

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‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎57] (78/508), British Library: Printed Collections, 212.d.1., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023664258.0x00004f> [accessed 24 November 2024]

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