News of a Hitherto Unknown Neo-Latin Columbus Epic, Part II. José Manuel Peramás’s De invento Novo Orbe inductoque illuc Christi sacrificio (1777)

8 Plato and the Guarani Indians

“…Peramás was to end up living in exile in the Italian city of Faenza, where he produced several Latin works which were prompted by his knowledge and experience of the Americas, including an account of his expulsion, the Annus Patiens , ‘Year of Suffering’ (Suárez, ). His epic poem about Columbus, De invento novo orbe, ‘On the Discovery of the New World’, was published in Faenza (Peramás, ; Arbo and Laird, ; Feile Tomes, , ).…”