Filippo Salvatore Gilii

Filippo Salvatore Gilii, an Italian Jesuit born in 1721, founded in 1749 the mission of San Luis de La Encaramada, at the confluence of the Guaya and the Orinoco, and lived there for eighteen years, until the expulsion of the Society of Jesus in 1767. There he learned the language of several peoples of the region and took an interest in their ancient beliefs. Back in Europe, he published in Rome, from 1780 to 1784, a history of the Tierra Firme in four volumes, and died in 1789.

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• ChronicleSaggio di storia americanaFilippo Salvatore Gilii · 1780not translated into EnglishLiterature