Travelogues of Pietro Della Valle

Essays

A Jilted Italian Lover’s Description of Primary Arithmetic Education in Gerusoppa

A Jilted Italian Lover’s Description of Primary Arithmetic Education in Gerusoppa

Pietro Della Valle, the 16th Century Italian musicologist and traveller, gives us a vivid and endearing picture of how small boys learnt arithmetic in Gerusoppa, now in Uttara Kannada district.