[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [European vernaculars](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu) › [Early sixteenth-century accounts (after 1500)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later) › Letters of Andrea Corsali (1515–17) # Letters of Andrea Corsali (1515–17) (Lettere di Andrea Corsali) Letters of a Florentine in Portuguese service to Giuliano and Lorenzo de' Medici from Cochin: Indian customs, the "gentiles" who eat nothing that has life, and the first European description of the Southern Cross. - **Language:** Italian - **Date:** 1515–1517 CE - **Author:** [Andrea Corsali](https://indike.org/pramana/person/corsali) - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.corsali](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.eu.later.corsali) · Pramāṇa