Poggio Bracciolini, On the Vicissitudes of Fortune (De varietate fortunae)

Book 4 records what Niccolò de' Conti told Poggio of his 25 years in the East: Cambay, Vijayanagara and its king, the sati and car festivals, Malabar, Calicut and Cochin, the shrine of St Thomas at Malepur, Ceylon, Bengal and the Ganges, Burma and the Indies; also an envoy from Christians of upper India at Pope Eugene's court.