Dionigi de Carli da Piacenza was a Capuchin missionary in Africa, in the seventeenth century.
Carli published at Rhegio in 1672 his own work together with that of Guattini under the title: Il Moro transportato in Venezia ovvero curioso raconto de' Costumi, Riti et Religione de' Populi dell' Africa, America, Asia ed Europa.
An English translation is published in Churchill, "Voyages" (London, 1704), I. Carli gave a detailed description of the manners and customs of the Congolese, and of the doings of the missionaries.
He tells how the friars died in numbers, owing to the climate, and speaks with discouragement of the peculiar difficulties of the situation.
He trusts that some of the 2700 children he baptized will reach Heaven and be to his credit as a missionary in the judgment book of God.