The river orinoco illustrated circulated throughout the americas and europe in several languages. The authors explore the main issues that underlie the colonial discourse in the text through the rhetoric figures built by gumilla in order to write the orinocos natural history. He was ordained in 1714 and went to the orinoco mission. Latin american literature the 18th century britannica. Chapter 9 entre caos y cosmos graduate center, cuny. Following the war of the spanish succession 170114, the first spanish bourbons set out to put their kingdoms in order and to win the hearts and minds of their subjects. The book provides details on the tributaries of the orinoco river from venezuela, as well as customs of the indigenous people, medicines, food, etc. A study of the saliba language world digital library. Libro nuevo o segunda mano, sinopsis, resumen y opiniones. Arquitectura del templo misionero en las reducciones. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. The role of libraries in the missionary regions of orinoquia. Under the royal order of our catholic monarch charles iv, god preserve him, for demanding the greater learning and intelligence of.
The extended title of the present work makes clear that it draws on an earlier dictionary, much revised and corrected here. Article pdf available december 2006 with 263 reads how we measure reads. In 1705 he left spain for new granada today colombia where he studied at the universidad javeriana in bogota. He explored the orinoco river basin in the eighteenth century.
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