El procurador criollo Alonso de Ovalle en Roma. Una “Histórica Relación¨ de guerra y paz, siglo XVII

In this article we will discuss a mediator – the criollo Jesuit procurator Alonso de Ovalle – and his movements between the Americas, Spain and Rome in the second half of the 17th century. We will link this mediator to an agent of knowledge and specific networks of knowledge. Thus, the case study we present allows us to examine how a book about Chile that was published in baroque Rome, An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile, opens up possibilities for the procurator’s importance as a mediator and agent of circulation who was able to publicize and describe the vicissitudes of war and peace in a remote corner of the Spanish monarchy to Europe