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a Portuguese Jesuit of the 16th century, published in Portuguese a work which G. P. Maffei translated into Latin under the title Rerum a Societate Jesu in Oriente Gestarum ad Anum 1568. This book contained the letters of the author upon the missions in Japan. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.