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GRACIAS (J. A. Ismael). A INDIA em 1623 e 1624: excertos das memórias do viajante italiano Pietro Della Valle. Nova Goa. 1915. - GRACIAS (J. A. Ismael) A INDIA em 1623 e 1624: excertos das memórias do viajante italiano Pietro Della Valle . Compilados e Anotados por J.A. Ismael Gracias, da Academia das Sciências de Lisboa. Nova Goa: Imprensa Nacional, 1915. [8], 182 pp.; 245 mm. A selection, in Portuguese, of passages from the travelogue of the Roman nobleman Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652) concerning his stay in India between 1623 and 1624, compiled and annotated by JA Ismael Gracias. The traveler landed on the west coast of India in 1623 and stayed in Goa and neighboring territories, leaving descriptions of the customs, urban life, society, and administration of the Indian state, written by a foreign, non-Portuguese observer, of great interest to the history of Goa in the first third of the 17th century. Della Valle's work, published in Italy under the title Viaggi di Pietro della Valle il Pellegrino , is one of the best-known accounts of European travels to the 17th-century East and constitutes a significant contribution to Goan historiography. Curious and unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate