Narracion de la marabillosa aparicion que hizo el archangel San Miguel

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Author: Francisco de Florencia (1619-1695) Date: 1740 Publisher: Siete Revueltas Place: Seville Description: [8]+194+[4] pages with full-page engraving on verso of title page. Quarto (7 3/4" x 6") bound in contemporary vellum with edges tinted red. (European Americana 740/121; Medina, BHA 6467; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815) Second edition, first published in 1692. Francisco de Florencia was the first Jesuit to be born in the territory that is now known as the United States, in the current state of Florida. At the age of twenty-three, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1612 and was professor of philosophy and theology at the Colegio Máximo de México. In 1668 he was sent as procurator of his province to Rome and Madrid. He then returned to the Mexican capital, where he died in 1695. Of his sixteen works (almost all with very baroque titles), the History of the Province of the Society of Jesus in New Spain stands out , published in Mexico in 1694, where he recorded the missionary work of the priests, without making concessions to the Indians, whom he almost totally ignores. Before entering the Society of Jesus in 1641, at the age of twenty-one, he had been a seminarian at the Colegio de San Ildefonso, where he later taught Philosophy, between 1653 and 1660, lessons he continued to teach at the Colegio Máximo de México between 1660 and 1668. He then held the Vespers chair of Theology. He was chosen to travel to Rome as procurator by the XVII Provincial Congregation, together with Amb

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