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VALIGNANO (ALESSANDRO)
Advis de la bien heureuse mort de cinq religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus... aux Indes Orientales, Paris, T. Brumen, 1584

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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VALIGNANO (ALESSANDRO)

Advis de la bien heureuse mort de cinq religieux de la Compagnie de Jesus... aux Indes Orientales, first French edition, woodcut printer's device on title, faint waterstain at head, without final blank, repaired losses to blank areas of final two leaves, contemporary limp vellum, spine strengthened with paper, 8vo, Paris, T. Brumen, 1584

Footnotes

The Italian Jesuit missionary Valignano reports on the deaths of five of his colleagues in Goa, including the nephew of the Society's Superior General, Rodolfo Acquaviva. The group was attacked by Hindus on 15 July 1583 in the village of Cuncolim, with a Portuguese layman and fourteen native Christians also killed. The account was published in Italian and Latin in the same year; no copies traced at auction.

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