Fr. Alonso de Ovalle (
Santiago
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; July 27, 1603 –
Lima
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; May 1651) was a Chilean
Jesuit
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priest and chronicler of Chilean history, author of the ''Historica relacion del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en él la Compañía de Jesus'', describing the
Conquest of Chile
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and the
Arauco War
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. He was great grandson of the
Genoese sailor
Juan Bautista Pastene
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.
Sources
* Alonso de Ovalle
Historica relacion del Reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en él la Compañía de Jesus Roma : Por Francisco Cavallo, 1646. Biblioteca Nacional
References
1603 births
1651 deaths
Jesuit historians and chroniclers
Captaincy General of Chile
Chilean historians
17th-century Chilean Jesuits
Chroniclers
17th-century Chilean historians
Chilean people of Italian descent
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