Diego Francisco Altamirano was a Jesuit and author, born at

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, 26 October 1625; died in

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, 22 December 1715.

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The son of an influential fiscal of the

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, he entered the Society of Jesus in March of 1642. Two years later he sailed to the Province of Paraguay, where he became

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of the Colegio Máximo of Córdoba, in 1666. He was chosen as

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for the 1683

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, where Thyrsus González de Santalla was chosen as Superior General of the Society of Jesus. In 1688, he was selected as a visitor to the Jesuit province of the New Kingdom of Granada, that was waiting to be divided into two: New Granada and Quito; the division was made effective in 1696. Altamirano visited many of the key places for the Society of Jesus from the port of Cartagena, to

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and Quito. Altamirano reported the condition of the province, stating many faults that included malfunction of different Colegios in the New Kingdom of Granada and low morale in some Jesuits that resided there. He wrote the , of which only the twelfth book was published, in 1891, by

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, with a short biographical notice from the pen of Torres Saldamando. It was followed by another by Altamirano: , also with introduction by Saldamando.

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