Penna, Francesco della

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Francesco della Penna

(1680-1745)

The appendix refers to biographical information elsewhere in the collected writings. (BCW 4:662).

Italian Capuchin missionary in Tibet. His information formed the basis of a report on the Tibetan mission published in Rome in 1742, later issued in French with notes by Klaproth. (BCW 6:443).

B. de Zirkoff identifies the text quoted by H. P. Blavatsky as Breve notizia del regno del Thibet, dated 1730 and published at Paris in 1835 with notes by J. Klaproth. (B. de Zirkoff, BCW 6:97)

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• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Пенна, Франческо делла

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Mentioned in: Tibetan Teachings (BCW 6:97)

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