[COMPANHIA DE JESUS].- DIVERSI AVISI | PARTICOLARI DALL'INDIE | di Portogallo, riceuuti dall'anno 1551. | fino al 1558. dalli Reuerendi padri | della compagnia di GIESV. | DOVE S'INTENDE DELLI PAESI, | delle genti, & costumi loro, & la grande con- | uertione di molti popoli, che hanno | riceuuto il lume della santa sede, | & religione Christiana. | Tradotti nuouamente dalla lingua Spagnuola nella Italiana.- In Venetia: per Michele Tramezzino M D LXV. [1565].- [8], 294 f.; 14 cm.- E. Venetian reprint of a set of 54 letters sent by Jesuit missionaries, mainly from Brazil, but also from India, Congo, Japan and China, between 1551 and 1558, to the general of the Society (some to Inácio de Loyola himself) and to his jesuit brothers in Portugal. The edition, published on the initiative of Michele Tramezzino (printer of the first map of Portugal), is dedicated to the Duchess of Urbino, Vittoria Farnese della Rovere, and includes 53 letters sent from numerous places, not only eastern but also western, namely Goa, Malacca, Ormuz, Pernambuco, São Vicente, São Salvador, Cochin, etc. Noteworthy are missives from Saint Francis Xavier, Fr. Luis Frós, Fr. Manuel da Nobrega, etc. Copy slightly cropped, but clean, with only occasional small stains, coated in a recent full parchment binding. Provenance: auction 34, Silva’s/Pedro de Azevedo, December 1999, lot 360 (same copy). STC (Italy), 349. Cordier, p. 48. Palau, 74650 (for the 1st edition of 1558: Se cita otra tirada por el mismo editor pero 1565 que no hemos visto). Borba de Moraes, p. 60.