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8.) 
II. Lam-rim-CuEMBo, i.e., the three great ways which 
gradually lead to perfection. 
III. Curap-su-Drova, or spiritual means to be practised. 
It refers to a Tibetan God : 
IV. Sozor-THARBE-DO’, a rule or method to avoid the 
many transmigrations. 
V. Several minor works of less importance. 
He rendered from the Italian into Tibetan : 
VI. The Christian Doctrine of Bellarmine, augmented and 
explained by examples. 
II. The large Catechism of Thurlot with additions. 
VIII. Several minor works on the Christian religion. 
IX. He composed a vocabulary, Italian-Tibetan, and 
Tibeto-Italian of 35,000 words. 
These important labours of della Penna prove that he was 
a man who had acquired a very deep knowledge of the Tibetan 
language. His memory will ever remain dear to the friends 
of religionandscience. An unhappy event prevented the publi- 
cation of his works. ev iged to quit Lhasa and Tibet, and 
leave behind on his departure the press and its Tibetan types. 
To limit myself to the Tibetan MSS. preserved in Bishop’s 
College, I dare to say that they tend to the honour of Fr. Orazio, 
and recommend themselves eminently to the attention of 
the erudite in general and of the Italian Orientalists in 
particular. They prove conclusively that this enterprising 
missionary was a Tibetan scholar. It required, we must 
admit, a profound knowledge of Tibetan to find in it equiva- 
lents to nearly all the words of the Italian language. The 
MSS. often offer the curious peculiarities, the idiomatic turns 
of Tibetan phraseology. The interesting discovery of these 
MSS. increases our admiration for the zeal, the courage 
above all trials, and the noble perseverance of the Italian 
Capuchin Missionaries in Tibet. In addition to the titles which 
della Penna had long since to the veneration of all Catholics , 
he now acquires a right to the gratitude of learned Indianists 
which will not be disputed. 

A HisroricaL AND BrBLioGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF FatTHER 
Giuseppe Maria DE’ BERNINI Da GARGNANO. 
Bernardine was born on September 2, 1709, at Gargnano, 
a conspicuous and populous town, situated in the Riviera del 
Benacese Lago, commonly called Riviera, in the diocese of 
two youths in all the branches of science. On May 9, 1726, 
