DEDICATION

to be found, I could not persuade myself.
This continued until our mutual
exchange of letters,
begun some years ago,
freed me from all ambiguity.
I found that YOU
are not of Indian origin original: "Indum"; in this context, Kircher refers to the inhabitants of the Americas or "West Indies", but were born
from the illustrious Genoese family
of the Fabiani,
grafted onto a Spanish family tree stemma: a genealogical chart or lineage.
I found you to be beyond
every reproach.
To all these qualities is added
the innocent and blameless
integrity of YOUR life.
This is joined with a fervent zeal
and concern for promoting
the Christian Religion, by which...