Item Description: | Title in red and black. Originally published in Spanish, Madrid, 1726, under title: Relacion historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos, que estàn à cargo de los padres de la Compañia de Jesvs de la provincia del Paraguay. Father Muriel in his Latin translation of Charlevoix's Histoire du Paraguay, liv. XIII, p. 199, note 5, states that the real author of the "Relacion" is P. Domenico Bandiera, of Siena, who wrote it in Italian and entrusted Father Pedro Lozano with the translation into Spanish; J.P. Fernandez only contributed to it. cf. De Backer-Sommervogel. |