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 de Chile.

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.

External links

Mateos, F. (2003). "Ovalle, Alfonso De". New Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10: Mos–Pat (2 ed.). Detroit: Thomson Gale. p. 726.

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[JRP1993-1] 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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