"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٨‎١] (٥٠٨/١٠٢)

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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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