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Altogradi, Nicola

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ALTOGRADI, NICOLA. - Jesuit missionary in America, b. in Lucca on 1 Sept. 1689, d. 11 Feb. 1759. Having entered the novitiate in 1706, he passed in 1723 to the province of Peru, where for fifteen years he was superior of the Moxos mission. Various manuscripts of his are preserved (National Library of Lima, etc.), composed mainly to defend the missions of the Spanish religious against the incursions of Portuguese colonists.

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BIBL.: Sommervogel, I, coll. 216-17; J. E. de Uriarte-M. Lecina, Bibl. de escritores de la Comp. de Jesús... de España, I, Madrid 1925, pp. 140-41.

Edmondo Lamalle

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 943.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Altogradi, nicola.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 943. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/altogradi-nicola.

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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Altogradi, nicola.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 943. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/altogradi-nicola.

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  author    = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
  title     = {Altogradi, nicola},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {943},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/altogradi-nicola}
}

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