Dionigi de Carli

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Dionigi de Carli da Piacenza was a Capuchin missionary in Africa, in the seventeenth century. He was one of a band of Franciscan friars of the Capuchin Reform, sent out to the Congo in 1666. One of his companions was Michele Angelo Guattini da Rhegio, who wrote an account of the voyage of the missionaries from Genoa to Lisbon and thence to Brazil, Luanda, and the Congo, that being the route the missionaries had to take to get to their destination.