Francisco Ignacio Alcina SJ

an important resource for researchers in this early friar-recorded history of the people we now call filipinos. what i like about the book is that the author writes sympathetically of his subject. can't remember much detail as i've read this a long time ago, like three years. there was something there about rootcrops and plants. really want a copy of this book.

lucio gutierrez, the translator of this book, also wrote the biography of the first bishop of the philippines, domingo de salazar. also another important resource for this time period.… (meer)