1) Tamil-language literature 
Thembavani (தேம்பாவணி in Tamil) (The Unfading Garland), one of the Tamil classics, a poetical work of Veeramamunivar (Constanzo Beschi), on the life of St.Joseph, earthly father of Jesus Christ. This Tamil Divina Commedia is divided into thirty-six cantos, containing 3,615 stanzas. `It is,` says Baumgartner, `the noblest epic ......