[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 13.1.2 # Storia do Mogor 13.1.2 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 13.1.2 - **Language:** English ### [13.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1.2) By the inquiries I instituted at Venice, I was unable to find any trace there of Manucci. I was told that the name was not Patrician. The only other Manuccis that I have come across do not, I fear, shed much lustre on the name; both occur in Casanova de Seingalt's 'Mémoires': one was the spy who denounced Casanova as a heretic, and secured his committal to I Piombi; the other was a friend met at Barcelona, whose plans Jacopo Casanova inadvertently betrayed. As Manucci nowhere tells us his father's Christian name or the parish of his birth, to search for his birth or baptism was a hopeless task. Nor did the police reports yield any notice of such a boy's disappearance. Further search under the right year and month (November, 1653) has not produced anything, nor any mention of Viscount Bellomont's stay at Venice and departure from it by sea. Thus the only means of reconstituting Manucci's life-story and its chronology is a search through the 'Storia.' This reconstruction I now attempt. - [Previous: 13.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1.1) - [Next: 13.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1.3) - [Up: 13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.13.1.2) · Pramāṇa