Daily Life in Colonial Mexico: The Journey of Friar Ilarione da Bergamo 1761-1768

by Friar Ilarione da Bergamo

Book Overview

Volume 78 in The American Exploration and Travel Series After returning to his Italian monastery in 1770, a Capuchin friar named Ilarione da Bergamo wrote an account of his transatlantic crossing and five-year residence in colonial Mexico. Sent to Mexico to collect alms for missionary work, Friar Ilarione lived four years in the silver-mining camp of Real del Monte, fifty miles north of the viceregal capital. Ilarione relates how he secured silver...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806142332
• ISBN13: 9780806142333
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.4"