Regnum Congo, hoc est, Vera descriptio regni Africani
Subtitle: quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur
By: per Philippum Pigafettam, olim ex Edoardi Lopez acroamatis lingua Italica excerpta ; nunc Latio sermone donata ab August. Cassiod. Reinio ; iconibus & imaginibus rerum memorabilium quasi viuis, opera & industria Ioan. Theodori & Ioan. Israëlis de Bry fratrum, &c. exornata
Contributors: Reina, Casiodoro de, approximately 1520-1594; Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611; Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598; Fondo Cicognara (Biblioteca apostolica vaticana); Leopoldo Cicognara Program (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Series: Cicognara library
Publisher: Excudebat VVolffgangus Richter, impensis Io. Theo. & Io. Israel. de Bry, frat.
Published: 1598
Place of publication: Francofurti
Language: lat; ita
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Early works to 1800; Discovery and exploration; Description and travel
Other titles: Vera descriptio regni Africani; Icones quibus ad maiorem lectoris recreationem primus Lusitanorum cum rege congressus.
Work titles: Relatione del reame di Congo
Notes: Text contains the relation of the visit of Duarte Lopes, a Portuguese, to the Congo in the year 1578. It was written by Fillipo Pigafetta from the dictation of Lopes, and was published in Rome in 1591 under the title: Relatione del reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade. Latin translation is by Casiodoro de Reina.

Includes index.

Brunet, I, col. 1310-1344

Church, E.D. Discovery, 205

Cicognara, 3970