MARK OF TOMBA. - Missionary and Indologist, born at a date that cannot be precisely determined at Tomba (Senigallia); as a young man he entered the Order of the Capuchins and set out in 1755 for northern India; there he worked at Bettiah, Patna and Chandernagor. In 1773 he returned to Europe. In 1781 he went back to the same mission becoming its vice-prefect in 1786, and then prefect in 1801. M. died on 7 June 1803 at Bhangulpore.

In the Introduzione al viaggio per l'India he set out the events of his missionary life from 1755 to 1774 together with the political events of northern India. His principal writings are: Trattato geografico del Nepal e del Tibet; Descrizione dei sistemi religiosi nell'Indostan; Traduzione in lingua italiana dei sacri libri Argiun Ghita, Lanka, Mul Pangi e del Giansagr, collected by A. De Gubernatis (Scritti del p. M. della T. [Florence 1878]), who pointed out their importance for the history of Oriental studies.

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BIBL.: P. Amat, Gli illustri viaggiatori italiani, Rome 1885, pp. 369-88; Anal. Ord. Min. Cap., 6 (1890), p. 350; Streti, Bibl., VI, nos. 607, 608, 618, 619; VIII, nos. 1207; 1379, 2215; G. da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche, Jesi 1928, p. 75; C. da Terzorio, Le missioni dei Cappuccini, Rome, 1935, IX, passim.

Callisto Lopinot

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