Spanish colonial literature in South America

Name: Spanish colonial literature in South America
Author: Moses, Bernard

Moses, Bernard

Spanish American literature -- History and criticism

Another traveller and missionary labourer in the region of the Amazon
was Padre Samuel Fritz, a Bohemian Jesuit who entered the missions of
Mainas in 1686. Besides founding a large number of new missions, he
made important contributions to what was then known about the geography
and languages of the lands adjacent to the Amazon and its principal
tributaries. He made a map of the region, which was engraved and
published in Quito in 1707.[152] He compiled grammars and dictionaries of
several native languages and made a map entitled _El gran río Marañón o
Amazonas con la misión de la Compañía de Jesús geográficamente delineado_.

[Sidenote: Ponce de León on _El Marañón_]

Among the unpublished contributions to the literature of the Amazon one
may note the _Conquistas y poblaciones del Marañón_, by Francisco Ponce
de León, who was a member of the order of Mercy, sometime provincial in
Chile, and missionary among the Indians. The manuscript was at one time
reported to be in Barcia’s library.




CHAPTER XII

THE EARLY YEARS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

    I. _Jorge Juan y Santacilla and Antonio de Ulloa._ II. _Alonso
    de Zamora and José de Oviedo y Baños._ III. _Joseph Luis
    Cisneros and Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara._ IV.
    _Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo and Juan de Mira._ V. _Juan Rivero,
    José Cassani and Pedro Gumilla._ VI. _Some minor ecclesiastical
    writers._


I

[Sidenote: French in South America]

[Sidenote: Feuillée and Frezier]

[Sidenote: Juan and Ulloa]

The dependence of Philip V on Louis XIV opened to the French an
opportunity for commerce and scientific investigation in Spanish South
America. In the first fifteen years of the eighteenth century French
merchants took advantage of their opportunity and sent an unprecedented
amount of exports in a large number of ships from French ports to the
ports of Chile and Peru. In these early decades of the century the French
undertook also scientific investigations in South America. Feuillée and
Frezier led the way, and they were followed by La Condamine’s expedition
to Ecuador, in which Spanish co-operation was represented by Jorge Juan
and Antonio de Ulloa. After the completion of the measurements near
Quito Juan and Ulloa made elaborate inquiries into the political and
social condition of the colonies. The results of these observations and
researches were set forth in two important documents: _Noticias secretas
de América_ and their _Relación histórica del viaje a la América_.

[Sidenote: _Noticias secretas_]

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Spanish colonial literature in South AmericaMoses, Bernard

History

Spanish colonial literature in South America

Moses, Bernard

Spanish American literature -- History and criticism

Another traveller and missionary labourer in the region of the Amazon
was Padre Samuel Fritz, a Bohemian Jesuit who entered the missions of
Mainas in 1686. Besides founding a large number of new missions, he
made important contributions to what was then known about the geography
and languages of the lands adjacent to the Amazon and its principal
tributaries. He made a map of the region, which was engraved and
published in Quito in 1707.[152] He compiled grammars and dictionaries of
several native languages and made a map entitled _El gran río Marañón o
Amazonas con la misión de la Compañía de Jesús geográficamente delineado_.

[Sidenote: Ponce de León on _El Marañón_]

Among the unpublished contributions to the literature of the Amazon one
may note the _Conquistas y poblaciones del Marañón_, by Francisco Ponce
de León, who was a member of the order of Mercy, sometime provincial in
Chile, and missionary among the Indians. The manuscript was at one time
reported to be in Barcia’s library.




CHAPTER XII

THE EARLY YEARS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

    I. _Jorge Juan y Santacilla and Antonio de Ulloa._ II. _Alonso
    de Zamora and José de Oviedo y Baños._ III. _Joseph Luis
    Cisneros and Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara._ IV.
    _Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo and Juan de Mira._ V. _Juan Rivero,
    José Cassani and Pedro Gumilla._ VI. _Some minor ecclesiastical
    writers._


I

[Sidenote: French in South America]

[Sidenote: Feuillée and Frezier]

[Sidenote: Juan and Ulloa]

The dependence of Philip V on Louis XIV opened to the French an
opportunity for commerce and scientific investigation in Spanish South
America. In the first fifteen years of the eighteenth century French
merchants took advantage of their opportunity and sent an unprecedented
amount of exports in a large number of ships from French ports to the
ports of Chile and Peru. In these early decades of the century the French
undertook also scientific investigations in South America. Feuillée and
Frezier led the way, and they were followed by La Condamine’s expedition
to Ecuador, in which Spanish co-operation was represented by Jorge Juan
and Antonio de Ulloa. After the completion of the measurements near
Quito Juan and Ulloa made elaborate inquiries into the political and
social condition of the colonies. The results of these observations and
researches were set forth in two important documents: _Noticias secretas
de América_ and their _Relación histórica del viaje a la América_.

[Sidenote: _Noticias secretas_]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Spanish colonial literature in South America

Spanish colonial literature in South America

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