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Auisi particolari delle Indie di Portugallo riceuuti in questi doi anni del .1551. & 1552. da li reuere[n]di padri de la Co[m]pagnia de Iesu, : doue fra molte cose mirabili, si uede delli paesi, delle genti, & costumi loro & la grande co[n]uersioue [sic] di molti populi, che cominciano a riceuere il lume della sa[n]ta fede & relligione [sic] Christiana

Jesuits · 1552 · In Roma : Per Valerio Dorico & Luigi Fratelli Bressani alle spese de M. Batista di Rofi Genouese · 9 pictures

A 1552 Italian printed letter collection from the Society of Jesus, published in Rome by Valerio Dorico and Luigi Bressani, reporting on missions in Portuguese India, Brazil and Japan for a readership of Italian Catholics. Its pages show large decorative woodcut initials with foliate scrolls and vine ornament, set beside dense black-letter-style Italian text in simple columns, offering designers models for ornamental capitals and historic page layout.

Jesuits -- Missions -- India · Jesuits -- Missions -- Japan · Jesuits -- Missions -- Brazil · Imprint 1552

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