Memoriale presentato alla Maesta del Cattholico Re Don Filippo dal Capitan Pietro Fernandez de Chiroa

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Full title: Memoriale presentato alla Maesta del Cattholico Re Don Filippo dal Capitan Pietro Fernandez de Chiroa sopra la populatione di nuovo scoperta nella quarta australe del mondo, circa 1611. 1 item (6 leaves), Folio of six leaves, measuring approximately 34.3 x 22.5 cm. Four leaves of text with final leaf blank. Written in a cursive hand in ink, with 26 lines of text per leaf. Title from manuscript title-leaf. Manuscript version, circa 1611 from Milan (?), Italy, of Quirós' eighth Memorial translated into Italian. The folio is bound as leaves 173-177 in a collective volume of manuscripts of a political, diplomatic or historical nature relating to Spain and its domains, in particular in Italy, bearing the title Notizie istoriche appartenente al Regno di Spagna, di Portogallo, e di Sicilia. In this Memorial addressed to King Philip III of Spain Quirós gives an account of the lands that he discovered and named "Australia del Espirito Santo" (leaf 177). He cites the goodness and greatness of the lands and supplicates the King hoping to establish a Spanish colony that could compare with the provinces of New Spain and Peru.