Peregrinaciones y viajes de un soldado, después jesuita De Cataluña a Nueva España, Cortes de Madrid y Roma (1674-1711)

• 1. Verfasser: Calvo, Thomas (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Spanisch
• Veröffentlicht: Madrid Casa de Velázquez 2023
• Schriftenreihe: Sources de la Casa de Velázquez
• Schlagworte: European history; autobiography; Barcelona; wars of Catalonia; Mexican hacienda; Philippines; Jesuits
• Online-Zugang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 1711, in the freezing winter of Madrid, Coadjutor Brother Felipe Frutos, a soldier in the wars of Catalonia in the 1690s, a Jesuit in the convulsive Barcelona of 1701-1705, sat down to write his life, although he had no hope of seeing it published. Why would he take up the quill? For one who had...