Relazione della cattura, e del viaggio del Brasile a Lisbona, e da Lisbona a Genova de PP. Gesuiti da Provincia del Brasile

by Jesuits - Brazil

$8,500 · Offered by Liber Antiquus

Manuscript in Italian written in a neat cursive in brown/black ink on laid paper. With some minor foxing, some folding lines, the creases slightly flattened, the bottom edge of the leaves is slightly frayed. Otherwise in very good condition. A harrowing account by a Jesuit Father of the Province of Brazil, describing the forced expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil in 1760, the hardships they endured during their capture, and the perilous journey from

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