ATIENZA, JUAN de. - Jesuit missionary. Born at Tordehumos (Valladolid) in 1542, died at Lima on 1 November 1592. A Jesuit in 1564, he was a professor of philosophy, rector of the novitiate of Villagarcia and of the college of Valladolid, before obtaining the mission of Peru. Rector at Lima in 1581, then provincial in 1585, he developed the missions in Ecuador and Paraguay (not yet separated from his province) and, with the founding of a printing press at Juli, ensured the diffusion of the writings in the Aymara and Quechua languages of missionary linguists such as Acosta and Barzana. He wrote the Lettere annue of Peru for the years 1590 and 1591.

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BIBL.: Streit, Bibl., II, p. 259; J. E. Uriarte-M. Lecina, Bibl. de escritores de la C. de J... de España, I, Madrid 1925, pp. 360-61; E. Torres Saldamando, Los antiguos Jesuitas del Perú, Lima 1882, pp. 24-31; A. Astrin, Historia de la Compañía de J. en la Asistencia de España, IV, Madrid 1913, pp. 509-530.

Edmondo Lamalle

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