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| Acosta, José de |
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(h s ´ th äk ´stä) (KEY) , c.15391600, Spanish Jesuit missionary to Peru. He wrote a well-known history of the Spanish colonial period, The Natural and Moral History of the Indies (1590; tr. 1604, 1880, repr. 1970). |
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