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Milan, From the Società Tipografica De' Classici Italiani, 1806. In 8°, vols. 3, portrait of the author engraved on copper, frontispiece of the first volume, pp. XII-563; 604; 477-(3), scattered light foxing, contemporary binding mz. leather, title and gold decorations on the spine, colored cuts, slight defects.
Giovanni Pietro Maffei (Bergamo 1533–Tivoli 1603), Jesuit, Latinist and historian, was invited in 1579 by the King of Portugal Henry I to go to Lisbon and Coimbra to collect and rearrange the documents relating to the conquest and evangelization of the 'India, using which he wrote the Historiarum Indicarum (1588), a very valuable work for its historical content and literary form.
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