Juan de Velasco

Juan de Velasco was born in Riobamba in 1727. He entered the Jesuits, studied philosophy and theology in Quito, where he received his doctorate and was ordained a priest in 1753, then exercised his ministry and taught in Cuenca, Ibarra and Popayán. He was expelled with his order from the Spanish possessions in 1767 and deported to Italy. He settled in Faenza, where he spent the rest of his life and died in 1792. In exile he also compiled an anthology of poems, his own and those of other expelled Jesuits.

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• ChronicleHistoria del Reino de QuitoJuan de Velasco · 1789not translated into EnglishLiterature