The Late Travels of Giacomo Baratti
shall find an exact account of the laws, government, religion, discipline, customs, &c. of the Christian people that do inhabit there with many observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them : together with a confirmation of this relation drawn from the writings of Damianus de Goes and Jo. Scaliger, who agree with the author in many particulars (1670)
Printed in London in 1670, Italian traveler Giacomo Baratti's travel narrative interperses his observations with those of earlier European "authorities" on Ethiopia, including Damião de Góis and Joseph Scaliger.
The travel narrative does not offer much in terms of the Prester John legend. In the section of his narrative entitled "A Description of the country of Precious John, vulgarly called Prester John," Baratti suggests several names for the Ethiopian negus, including "Belul, that is, Precious Giam Or John," "Illustrious Serenus," "Athani Ting∣hib," and "the son of K. David, the son of Solomon, the Son of the King by the hand of Mary, the Son of Naw according to the flesh, & the son of S. Peter, & S. Paul."
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