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Relazione istorica della nuova Cristianità degl’Indiani detti Cichiti scritta in spagnuolo dal P. Gio. Patrizio Fernandez, e tradotta in Italiano da Gio. Battista Memmi.
Rome: Antonio de’Rossi, 1729
Physical Description: [12], 233, [11] p. ; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: HA729/ V245r
Accession number: 01551
Notes: Chapter 2 contains a brief section on the Chiquito language (p. 22-24), including general remarks and two specimens with interlinear Italian versions: “Lodato sia Il SS. Sacramento” and “La formola di farsi il segno della Croce.”
Translation of: Relación historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos, Madrid, 1726. Father Muriel in his Latin translation of Charlevoix’s Histoire du Paraquay (livre XIII, p. 199, note 5), states that the real author of the “Relación” is P. Domenico Bandiera, of Siena, who wrote it in Italian and entrusted Father Pedro Lozano with the translation into Spanish; Juan Patricio Fernández, given as author here and on the title page of the 1726 Spanish edition, was merely a contributor. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel 1:871; 3:654; 3:441.
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Languages: Chiquito
Genre: Specimen
Region: Spanish America
