"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" [‎٣‎١‎٢] (٥٠٨/٣٣٣)

-q 12 The travels of Peter Delia Valle,
pointed for Paffage-Veflels upon theCoaftof Calabria, w h ere
alone Prattick was to be bad 5 we kept out at Sea all nipht, anrl
pafs'd ilPizzOM I , •
Jatitiarj the one and thhtietb 3 We pafs'dby and other
places 5 at noon arriving at Paola where I went afhore. A little
without the City, amongft the Jittle Hills we faw the Church of
S. Francis of Paola> which is delicately feated amongft goodl^
Trees and Brooki which run between the Hills. We faw the
Rtliques, the Chappel of the Marquis, Lord of the place, and
his. Sepulchres 5 the Lime -kiln where S. Francis did a miracle •
the Fountain and the Grotto wherein he lived, with all other
things remarkable, after which we lodg'din an Hoftervor Inn
upon the (hore. ; .:j.
February the fii ft, Having heard Mafs in a little Church there,
we left Faola^ and pafiing by Scoglio del Marcheje and other
Iflands 5 in the Evening we fupp'd at Sea under Belvedere, and
railing all night, the next day we din'd on Land at Camrota^
from whence we fail'd and came to an Anchor in the Port of W-
nnro 5 which place I beheld with pleafure, through the delight
ful! remembrance of Virgil's Verfes 5 which relate the mis
fortune of the Pilot Palniurns^and with-all 3 give immortal
fame to the pjace. ; ^ Y :
the fourth. We departed from and lodg'd
on fhore at Acciarnolo, where Pafl'engets are notoriouliy abus'd,
by being conftrain'jd to lodg in a ; lewd Inn there^and pay the Hoft
what he pleafes tgdei^and^iwho, is alfo ?o pay the Lord of the
place what iient h^defiresi. The next day we pafs'd the Gulph
ot Salerno s and bocchc di Capri, arriving late in the Port of
'Nappies, under the Dogana of Corn , but becaufe it was fo late
that we could not get Prattick 5 we ilept all night in the
Felluca's.
February the fixth, Sig: Andrea Pulice my Comrade, beingby
me ad vertis'd of my coming, brought S]g: Mario Schipano, and
many other Friends to vifit me in my Felluca 5 which interview,
after fo many years, was as pleafant as can be imagin'd. Asfoon
as the Officers negotiated for Prattick they obtaind it 5 but, for
lefs trouble, and becaufe I intended to ftay little at Naples, I di-
Ipuch'd one of my Felluca's wherein was the Body of
Maani, and othergocds, immediately 10 Rome. Upon Sig:
S-chipano's invitation, I lodg'd in his Houfe, together with all
ray people. At Naples I receiv'd the firft Letters from Rom af-
tt-r above four years, wherein I had not receiv'd any, nor heard
any certain tidings ot my Relations. Thefe advertis'd me of the
< aMt h ot big. / aLcrio deha I alle, which hapned four years before,
and alio of that of Sig.* 'lomajjo della Valle, my Uncle whichfell
out about a year betore my arrival. At whole deaths I alio be-
mg no longer accounted living. Certain Pious Places feis 'd upon
part ot my goods and revenues, and would have gotten all the
left; with the writings, fas they attempted to do) had not my
fc^nioc kinred.