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The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India, From the old English Translation of 1664, by G. Havers. Edited with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes, by Edward Grey. Volume I, 1st series, 84, 1892 (1891). Pietro della Valle’s vivid style has been acclaimed as ‘the literary equivalent of Caravaggio’s contemporary radical naturalism’ (Bibliography, J.-P. Rubiès, p. 386). His eight letters from India, here published in G. Havers’ translation of 1664, record his experiences from his arrival at Surat in 1623 to his departure from Goa in November 1624. The editor, Edward Grey, retired from the Indian Civil Service, provides a condensed biography of the author, a short account of the Portuguese in India and a history of the text in its different language versions. These letters were part of a longer sequence which he sent back from Turkey and Persia to a Neapolitan friend for publication. In the event, the Indian letters were not published in his lifetime (d.1652) and, though left in an unedited form, have never lost their appeal: CUP reprinted this edition in 2012.