Diego José Abad
Diego José Abad y García (June 1, 1727 in La Lagunita, near Jiquilpan, Michoacán – September 30, 1779 in Bologna, Italy) was a Jesuit poet and translator in New Spain and Italy. Biography Abad y García studied letters and philosophy at the College of San Ildefonso. In 1741 he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), becoming a teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, canon law and civil law in seminaries of the order in Mexico City, Zacatecas and Querétaro. In 1767, at the time of the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire, he was rector of the seminary of San Francisco Xavier in Querétaro. Like all other Jesuits, he was deported from the colony and left for Italy. He lived initially in Ferrara, and later in Bologna. Works In 1750 he wrote ''Rasgo descriptivo de la fábrica y grandezas del templo de la Compañía de Jesús en Zacatecas'' (''Descriptive flourish of the fabrication and grandeur of the Church of the Company of Jesus in Zacatecas''), in eight-line stanz ...
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