Historica relatione del regno di Cile : e delle missioni e ministerij che esercita in quelle la Compagnia di Giesu
A 1646 Italian Jesuit account of the Kingdom of Chile and the Society of Jesus missions there, printed in Rome by Francesco Cavalli and written by Alonso de Ovalle for a Catholic readership. The engraved plates show martyrdom scenes and mission events: a saint kneeling on a rock before armed natives, a figure bound to a cross while men hack at him, and a clouded heavenly vision above a hilly landscape with a walled town. A designer could draw on the dense crowded compositions, the cloud banks, and the stiff, dramatic poses of Baroque engraving.
