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. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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