Alessandro 1584, "Historia del Principo y Progresso de la Compania de Jesus en las Indias Orientales (1542-64)" ("History of the Beginnings and Progress of the Society of Jesus in the East Indies (1542-64)") Valignano, Alessandro 1586, Catechismus christianae fidei. Lisbon: Antonius Riberius, 1586 in 2 vols. (very rare work; but wholly included in Antonio Possevino, Bibliotheca Selecta Qua Agitur De Ratione Studiorum in Historia, in Disciplinis, in Salutem Omnium Procuranda. Rome: Typographia Apostolica Vaticana, 1593. See Urs App, The Birth of Orientalism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010 (), pp. 18–24, 139-146 on the important role of this work of Valignano (version included in the Bibliotheca selecta of Antonio Possevino, 1593) in the European reception of Asian religions. Timeline of Valignano biography External links Article on Valignano and the controversies of his first visitation to Portuguese Asia (1573-1580) - 1539 births 1606 deaths Italian expatriates in China Italian expatriates in Japan 16th-century Italian Jesuits Jesuit missionaries in China Italian Roman Catholic missionaries People from Chieti Jesuit missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Japan Members of the Tenshō embassy