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Rare account of a Theatin monk in India

FABRI, Girolamo.
Il missionario apostolico, overo relatione dell'operato dal Padre D. Francesco Manco chierico regolare, missionario apost. Nell'Indie Orientali.





Rome, Lodovivo Grignani, 1649. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, red painted edges. (12), 232, (2) pp.

Rare first and only edition of the account of the voyage by the priest Francesco Manco to the East Indies by Girolamo Fabri (1627 -1679). Manco was one of the first members of the Theatin order to go to India in 1639, along with P. Avitable (ca. 1590 - 1650). The Theatin order, or Apostolic clerks, or Pauline monks, is an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.
Good copy.- (Half-loose hinges, small hole in title, stamp on verso title, sl. foxed).
Streit V, 141, 389; not in NUC nor Diz. biogr. degli Ital.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Mission  Religious Orders  Travel & Voyages 

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