Il cristianesimo felice nelle missioni de' padri della Compagnia di Gesù nel Paraguai
By: descritto da Lodovico Antonio Muratori
Contributors: Cattaneo, Gaetano, 1676-1733
Publisher: Presso Giambatista Pasquali
Published: 1752
Place of publication: In Venezia
Language: ita
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Church history; Indians of South America; Missions; History; Catholic Church; Jesuits
Notes: Vol. 2 called: parte seconda.

Pt. 1 was issued as a complete work in 1743 and was largely based upon "Una relazione delle missioni del Paraguai, composta circa l'anno 1690. da un canonico" and "La relacion historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos, scritta dal padre Gian-Patricio Fernandez della Compagnia di Gesù," as well as other Jesuit writings. Cf. Ai lettori. Pt. 2 was issued in 1749 and consists principally of further Jesuit letters and documents.  The two parts are issued together for the first time in this ed. of 1752.

Signatures: pt. 1: *⁶ A-T⁸ V¹6t. 2: A-S⁸ T⁶ V².

Pt. 1: [12] (p. 2 blank), 323, [1] p.; pt. 2: 303, [1] p. (last p. blank), 1 folded leaf of plates.

Woodcut: printer's device on t.p. (motto: La felicità delle lettere).

"[Lettere] del padre Gaetano Cattaneo della Compagnia do Gesú al sig. Giuseppe suo fratello": pt. 1, p. 220-323.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 51418

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 185908

Streit III, 587 (which apparently describes only pt. 1; see also III, 478)