[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Middle Ages (700 – 1500)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval) › Poggio Bracciolini, On the Vicissitudes of Fortune # 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. - **Language:** Latin - **Date:** 1448 CE - **Author:** [Poggius Bracciolinus](https://indike.org/pramana/person/poggio-bracciolini) - **Extent:** 11,406 words - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Translations (1) - [India in the Fifteenth Century (The Travels of Nicolò Conti)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.poggio~en-jones) — English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.poggio](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.poggio) · Pramāṇa