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Africans try to escape because of Spanish atrocities on Christmas
morning 1522; the Spanish capture them and the rebellion is suppressed.
Illustration after Joannes
Stradanus. From Girolamo Benzoni's Americae...,Insignis & Admiranda
Historia de reperta primum Occidentali India... Frankfurt: Johann
Theodor De Bry, 1594-1619. Second German edition. |
iego
de Avendaño
(Didacus
de
Avendanno)
(Segovia, 1594 - 1688? --- 1698?), was a Spanish-Peruvian Jesuit, a theologian, jurist?
and moral philosopher. He was the author of the monumental
Thesaurus Indicus,
a study of the legal and moral issues typical of life in the
Spanish-American colonies. He was born in Segovia in 1594 and moved to
South America at an early age. He was educated by Jesuits in South America
and joined their order. He became professor of Theology and Rector of the
Colegio Máximo de San Pablo de Lima, Peru and served as provincial of the Jesuits
in Peru. Very little is known about his personal life. His books were
published in Europe.
Works
- Epithalamium Christi et Sacrae
Sponsae (Lyon, 1653).
- Amphitheatrum misericordiae
(Lyon, 1656).
- Expositio Psalmi LXVIII
(Lyon, 1666).
- Thesaurus Indicus
(Antwerp, 1668-1686).
- Actuarium Indicum
(Antwerp, 1675-1686).
- Problemata theologica
(Antwerp, 1678).
- Cursus consummatus
(Antwerp, 1686).
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