RODRIGUEZ, Francisco.]
Catalogo de? religiosi della compagnia di Giesł, che furono tormentati, e fatti morire nel Giappone per la fede di Christo l?anno 1632 e 1633. Cavato dalle lettere annue, che sono arrivate quest? anno 1635 in Lisbona con la nave capitana dell? India Orientale.
Rome, Francesco Corbelletti, 1636. - Small 8vo (150 x 100 mm), pp. 15, [1]; foxed, a few margins slightly frayed or brittle; later boards. First Italian edition. An account of the martyrdoms of Jesuits in Japan in the years 1632-3, based on letters which had reached Lisbon from Macao in 1635. Publication of these notices was due to Francisco Rodriguez, a senior Portuguese Jesuit, whose name is printed in the dedicatory preface. The Spanish original appeared in 1635.Cordier, Japonica 329; BL Italian p. 758; Laures 422 (Sophia, Tenri); Sommervogel VI 1967; Streit V 1510.
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