The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c29.22

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General sent him to India immediately upon the first petition of Laerzio; for Laerzio himself, in January of the year 1605, wrote to Aquaviva that Fontebona had already been in Goa for two years¹; but that the Provincial of Goa, Fr. Manoel de Veiga, had retained him in that city, in order to paint the new church of the Professed House². Five years later, in 1607, Fontebona wrote from Vellore: "I have been told that a Flemish Lay Brother, himself a very good painter, was coming (to India); I was very glad, indeed, for he will be able to finish the painting of the new church of the Professed House, started by me"³.