Relazione istorica della nuova christianità degl'Indiani detti Cichiti
By: scritta in spagnuolo dal P. Gio. Patrizio Fernandez, e tradotta in Italiano da Gio. Battista Memmi ambidue della Compagnia di Gesù. ; Coll'aggiunta d'un indice delle cose più notabili
Contributors: Fernández, Juan Patricio, 1661-1733; Memmi, Giovanni Battista, 1695-1740; Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752
Publisher: Per Antonio de'Rossi, nella Strada del Seminario Romano
Published: 1729
Place of publication: In Roma, MDCCXXIX
Language: ita
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Missions; Jesuits; Chiquito language; Chiquito Indians; Indian linguistics; Guarani Indians; Guarani languages
Work titles: Relación historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman chiquitos
Notes: Translation of: Relación historial de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman Chiquitos ... (Madrid, 1726)

Father Muriel in his Latin translation of Charlevoix's Histoire du Paraguay, liv XIII, p. 199, note 5, states that the real author of the "Relación" is P. Domenico Bandiera, of Siena, who wrote it in Italian and entrusted Father Pedro Lozano with the translation into Spanish; J. P. Fernandez only contributed to it.  Cf. Backer-Sommervogel.

Signatures: a A-2F 2G

Title in red and black.

Title vignette; initials.

Errata: p. [11] (3rd count)

Includes index.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 729/212.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:431.

Medina, J.T.  Bib. hispano-americana, 2579n.

Moraes, R.B. de.  Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), p. 305.

Streit, R.  Bib. missionum., 3:284.

Backer-Sommervogel, T. III, col. 654; V, col. 880.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 87902.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.