The Jesuit Pedro de Vitoria (1579-1650) and the re-publication of his book Naufragio y
Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria, a 13-year-old Sevillian, had embarked from Cádiz for America in 1593, eager to become rich with gold from Peru. After many adventures and ailments, he arrived in Lima after traveling 840 km along the coast of Las Esmeraldas. He became a Jesuit and 15 years later he returned t...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/41872 |
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| Sumario: | Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria, a 13-year-old Sevillian, had embarked from Cádiz for America in 1593, eager to become rich with gold from Peru. After many adventures and ailments, he arrived in Lima after traveling 840 km along the coast of Las Esmeraldas. He became a Jesuit and 15 years later he returned to Spain, where he was a misfit. After residing in various schools in Andalusia, he requested resignation, and was dismissed from the Society in 1628, but continued to live in Seville, where he died in 1650. He wrote a book with his odyssey, whose publication was managed by his mother in 1610, and it was distributed in Europe (where some translations were published) and America, but the original edition is practically unknown, until a copy was discovered at the University of Mannheim, with which the work was republished in 2023. It is a book listed as very rare |
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