Note 174 — Chapter XIV · SOME ECCLESIASTICS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS BOOKS
Reading edition
Lizárraga’s Descripción y población de las Indias is said to have been extensively used by Padre Juan Meléndez in writing Tesoros verdaderos de las Indias (Rome, 1681). Meléndez was a Dominican born in Lima. After holding various offices in his order he was sent on a mission to Spain and left Callao September 2, 1673. He wrote also a chronicle of his order in Peru, and Descripción de las fiestas hechas por la beatificación de Santa Rosa. He was the first member of his order, born in Lima, to attain the office of bishop. The Descripción breve de toda la tierra del Perú, Tucumán, Río de la Plata y Chile is printed in Nueva biblioteca de autores españoles, XV (Historiadores de Indias, II), 485-661. See also Eyzaguirre, Historia de Chile, Valparaiso, 1850, I, 454-559.