Storia do Mogor 9.2.1

9.2.1

I have failed in obtaining much trace of Father F. Eusebius, of Bourges, Capuchin, while in India, and nothing at all about him after his return to Europe. Manucci, in Part IV., fol. 193, speaking of 1704, says that a short time before that year Eusebius had arrived at Madras from Surat, on his way to France. He went on to Pondicherry, where the Jesuits spread reports that he had been excommunicated, and thus every door was shut in his face. I do not know what became of him; but we learn from Morelli that he made over the books to the then ambassador of the Venetian Senate at Paris, Lorenzo Tiepolo (son of Francesco, son of Marco), a man of distinguished ancestry, whose family tree is given in vol. viii. of Count Pompeo Litta's 'Celebri famiglie Italiane' (Milano, n.d., ? 1835). There is a biography of him on p. 162 of vol. xxii. of Gerolamo Boccardo's 'Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana' (Torino, 1887), and in 'Il campodoglio Veneto' of Girolamo Alessandro Capellari, vol. iv. (of which the manuscript is in the library of San Marco). In the same library, Class VII., Codex DCCCCL, is the manuscript of Tiepolo's 'Relazione della sua ambasciata a Luigi XIV. di Francia.' In the State Archives at I Frari his dispatches from Paris are preserved. The first is dated April 4, 1704, and the last April 27, 1708. In none of these sources could I find any mention of Manucci's work, of its arrival in Paris, or its transmission to Venice. The Abbé Morelli, librarian from 1778, says on p.