Alonso de Ovalle
Alonso de Ovalle
Fr. Alonso de Ovalle (Santiago; July 27, 1603 – Lima; May 1651) was a Chilean Jesuit priest and chronicler of Chilean history, author of the Historica relacion del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en él la Compañía de Jesus, describing the Conquest of Chile and the Arauco War. He was great grandson of the Genoese sailor Juan Bautista Pastene.[1]
Sources
- Alonso de Ovalle, Historica relacion del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en él la Compañía de Jesus, Roma : Por Francisco Cavallo, 1646. Biblioteca Nacional
References
- ↑ Pinto Rodríguez, Jorge (1993). "Jesuitas, Franciscanos y Capuchinos italianos en la Araucanía (1600-1900)". Revista Complutense de Historia de América (in Spanish) 19: 109–147.
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