‘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’ [‎81] (102/508)

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parts •, fo that 'tis requifite to live with circumfpedioni And /£
this may ferve for advice to whoever (hall travel into thefe
Regions^ F. Fm.- Ledndro fent alfo to invite me to Mafs at his
Church ^ and being it was a Holy Day, and the Jefuits were not
yet come to fetch me, as they faid they would , I determin d to
thither 5 leaving Cacciatur in the Ship to look to the goods.
I was no fooner landed, but I met F. Sorrentino, who in the
Name of his Jefuits was coming to fetch me 5 and alfo with a
Valanchino to carry Mariam r £inaUn I know not whither. She
was gone already, and fo I made an excufe for her, and like-
wife for my felf to the Jefuits, onely for that day, being I was
upon the way with the Carmelites ^ and although it fomewhat
troubled them, yet I went to F. Leandro, having agreed to re
turn to the Ship ^ and the next day after my Goods were di-
fpatch'd at the Dogana^ which could not be done now becaufe
it was Sunday, I fhould then go to receive the favour of theje-
fuits as they commanded me. Wherefore proceeding to the
Church of the Carmelites, which ftands at the edge of the City
upon a pleafant Hill, with a very delightful profpeft, I heard
Mafs there, and ftay'd both to dine, fup, and lodg with them,
dyril the tenth. Early in the Morning I went to the Ship, landed
my Goods, difpatch'd them at the Cuftom-houfe, and having
carry'd them to the Houfe of Sig" Lena da Cugna, where MarUm
Tinatinwas, I went to quarter (till the Houfe taken forme were
emptied, clean'd, and prepar'dj) in the Covent of the Profefs'd
Houfe of the Jefuits, where I was received by the Vifitor, the
Provincial, the Provoft, and the reft, with much courtefie, and
with their accuftomed Charity and Civility. I found there many
Italian Fathers, of which Nation the Society makes frequent
ufe, efpecially in the Miffions of China, Japan, India, and many
other places of the Eaft ^ befides the two above-nam'd, I found
of Italians F .Chrijioforo Boro, a Milanefe, call'd Breno'm India 6
( not to offend the Portugal's ears with the word Boro, which in ^
their Language do's not found well) a great Mathematician 5 Jf/u rul
and another young Father who was afterwards my Confeflbr 5
F. Ginliano Baldinotti of Fifioia, defign'd for Japan, whither he
went afterwards. Moreover, in the Colledge which is another
Church, and a diftind Covent, ¥. Alejjandro Leni, ancient
Roman, and Friend of my Uncles, with whom, efpecially with
Sig: Alejfandro, he had ftudied in our Cafa Injiitnta , or Aca
demy F. Giacinto Francefchi a Florentine all who,with infinite
others of feveral Nations, Fortugals , Ca(iilians , and others^
were all my Friends j and particularly, F. Pantaleon Vincijlao a .
German, well fkill'd in Mathematicks, and a great wit. Procu
rator of China ^ F. Per Moryad, the Vice-Roy's Confeflor, and
Y.Francefco Vergara, bothCajiilians ^ F* Chrijioforo di Giavanni
a Tort neat, learned in Greek and Arabick i F. Flamnio Carlo ot
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