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Zirkoff, Boris

Penna di Billi, Francesco Arazio della (1680-1747). See Vol. VI, p. 443, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 662

Penna di Billi, Francesco Arazio della. Italian missionary, b. 1680 at Macerata. d. at Patan, Nepaul, July 20, 1747. Entered early the Capuchin Order. Named, 1719, to head mission to convert Tibet. Went to Lhassa with twelve others. After several years of labors, mission was reduced to three; came back to Rome, 1735, asked and obtained nine other brothers, and went again, 1738; arrived in Tibet, 1741, with letters of recomm. On basis of his information, the Congregation of Propaganda published: *Relazione del principio e stato présente della missione del . . . Regno del gran Tibet . . . Rome, 1742. 4to. This account has been published in French, with notes by Klaproth, in the Nouveau Journal Asiatique, Paris, 1835.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 443