El heredero de un gran Imperio: Joaquín Camaño hacia fines del siglo XVIII

Abstract

In this paper I expose part of the conclusions of my thesis of doctorate on I Gesuiti americani espulsi in Italy and Joaquín Camaño (1767-1814). My intention was to deepen the role of the Jesuits, especially that of Joaquín Camaño (1737-1820), inside the scene of the Italian and European culture at the end of XVIII th. His most important work consisted of being an arduous defender of the memory of his province during the suppression of the Jesuits and of compiling a great part of the sources for the "Idea dell’Universo" Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro's. In "Idea dell’Universo" Camaño submerges, takes like own the research of the Spanish, and gives life to a network of epistolary contacts that will be a part of the most important " relational network " of the epoch spread between Europe and Latin America.