Spanish colonial literature in South AmericaMoses, Bernard
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Spanish colonial literature in South America
Moses, Bernard
Spanish American literature -- History and criticism
Another member of this group was Ladislaus Orosz, an Hungarian. In 1727,
at the age of thirty, he went to Río de la Plata, taught philosophy
and theology in Córdoba, and after his expulsion from America returned
to his native province of Tyrnau, where he died in 1773. Two principal
manuscripts are ascribed to him. The first was _Decades quatuor virorum
illustrium Paraquariae_. This was printed in Tyrnau in 1759, and made
a folio volume of five hundred and fifty-two pages. The other work was
called _Decades quatuor aliae virorum illustrium Paraquariae_, and was
apparently printed but never circulated.
[Sidenote: Other expelled Jesuits]
There were many others who went into exile from the region of the Río de
la Plata and Paraguay. The more conspicuous among them were José Cardiel,
José Quiroga, José Jolís, José Manuel Peramás, Domingo Muriel, Gaspar
Juárez, and José Sánchez Labrador.[171] Cardiel’s literary contributions
include _Declaración de la verdad_ and _Breve relación de las misiones
Guaraníes_. Quiroga became known for his attainments in mathematics; was
a professor of mathematics in the college of San Ignacio in Buenos Aires;
and made a large number of maps of the southern part of South America
and, among others, a map of the viceroyalty of Buenos Aires. He left also
a treatise called _Observaciones astronómicas para determinar el curso
del río Paraguay_. Jolís was a Catalan, born in 1728. He was a missionary
in the Gran Chaco for ten years. His most noted literary production was
_Saggio sulla storia naturale della provincia del Gran Chaco_. José
Manuel Peramás wrote _Vidas de varones ilustres_ and _Annus patiens_, the
latter consisting of a diary of the journey of the exiles from Córdoba.
Domingo Muriel (sometimes in Latin as Cyriacus Morelli) left _Fasti novi
orbis_ and a continuation of Charlevoix’s _Paraguay_ under the title of
_Historia del Paraguay desde 1747 hasta 1767_. Gaspar Juárez was born in
Santiago del Estero in 1731, became a Jesuit in 1748, and died at Rome in
1804. His principal works are _Historia ecclesiástica del virreinato de
Buenos Aires_ and _Historia natural_, treating of the same region.[172]
[Sidenote: José Sánchez Labrador]
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