Ludovico Bertonio
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Ludovico Bertonio(1552 inRocca Contrada– 3 August 1625 inLima) was an ItalianJesuitmissionary to South America.
Life
[edit]He entered the Society of Jesus in 1575. Sent to Peru six years later, he worked principally among theAymaraof southern Peru and ofBolivia.
Work
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He wrote on theAymara language.His earliest publications appeared under the titleArte breve de la lengua aymara para introducir el Arte grande de la misma lengua(Rome, 1603), alsoArte y gramatica muy copiosa de la lengua aymaraetc.
The printing press having been introduced and established by the Jesuits at the Indian mission ofJuliin southwestern Peru, Bertonio had the following works printed there, including four in the year 1612 alone:
- Arte y Grammatica muy copiosa de la Lengua Aymara(1603)
- Arte Breve de la Lengua Aymara para Introducción del Arte Grande de la misma Lengua(1603)
- Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara(1612)
- Arte de la Lengua Aymara. Con una Silva de Phrases de la misma lengua y declaracion en Romance(1612)
- Libro de la Vida y Milagros de Nuestro Señor Iesu Christo en dos Lenguas. Aymara y Romance(1612)
- Confessionario muy copioso en dos lenguas Aymara y Española, con una instrucción a cerca de los Siete Sacramentos de la Sancta Yglesia y otras varias cosas(1612)
The publications by Bertonio are rare.Julius Platzmannpublished in facsimile theArte y grammaticaof 1603 and the Vocabularies. The Peruvian historianClemente Markhamclaimed that Bertonio invented the name "Aymara"; the Bolivian geographerManuel Vicente Ballivianrejected this in a pamphlet.
References
[edit]- Albó, Xavier; Layo, Félix (July 1984),Ludovico Bertonio (1557-1625): Fuente única al mundo Aymara temprano(PDF),Revista Andina, no. 1
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ludovico Bertonio".Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.The entry cites:
- Enrique Torres Saldamando,Los antiguos Jesuitas del Peru(Lima, 1882);
- Manuel de Mendiburu,Diccionario(Lima, 1876), II:
- Manuel Vicente Ballivian,Boletin de la Sociedad geografica de la Paz.
