Travel
[ALMEYDA, Emmanuel de; Emmanuel Diáz; Guiliano Baldinotti]
Lettere dell' Ethiopia dell' anno 1626 fino al Marzo del 1627 e della Cina dell' anno 1625 sino Febraro del 1626. Con une breve relatione del viaggio al Regno di Tunquim, nuovamente scoperto.
Zanetti, Rome 1629. 8vo., 133pp., woodcut device to title, library stamp to verso of title, occasional browning, modern vellum, gilt lettered.
The letters in this work include Almeyda's Ethiopian relation (1627), Diáz's Kiatim, China (1626), and Baldinotti's Macao (1591-1631). Baldinotti gives an important early account of Vietnam and the Jesuit mission there. Emmanuel Diáz (1559-1639) of the Society of Jesus arrived in China in 1615, was exiled to Macao following the persecutions at Nanking in 1616, and was sent back to Peking in 1621. Nominated Vice-Provincial for China in 1623 following the death of Jean de Rocha, he held this position during the 1630's working throughout south China, in particular at Jiangxi and Fuzhou and finally Hangzhou, where he died. Cordier Sinica 816; Cordier Indosinica 1915-1916; DBS I, 193.
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