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Valignano, Alessandro 1586, Catechismus christianae fidei. Lisbon: Antonius Riberius (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 (ISBN 978-0-8122-4261-4), 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.