Between Cross and Pen: Nicolás del Techo, Missionary and Historian of Jesuit Province of Paraguay (1640-1685)
Nicolás del Techo left Europe for good in 1640 and went to Paraguay, where he was a missionary until his death in 1685. In his new land, he wrote a history of the Jesuit Province of Paraguay named Historia Provinciae Paraquariae Societatis Iesu, which is the oldest that exists. The Historia was fina...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/38861 |
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| Sumario: | Nicolás del Techo left Europe for good in 1640 and went to Paraguay, where he was a missionary until his death in 1685. In his new land, he wrote a history of the Jesuit Province of Paraguay named Historia Provinciae Paraquariae Societatis Iesu, which is the oldest that exists. The Historia was finally printed in Liège in 1673. Throughout his life, Nicolás del Techo wrote at times texts, including the Historia of letters, and at times inspired people to write biographies. All these documents, now preserved in several European and Latin American countries, allow us to retrace the thread of his intercontinental life and to situate the writing of the Historia in Paraguay between 1658 and 1673. The aim of this paper is to understand why and how del Techo, a field man, became a man of letters in a specific environment surrounded by the reductions. |
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