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The present article has been made possible through a generous fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, as an introduction to “Studies of documents in Italian archives bearing on Latin American history.” A brief version of this article was submitted for the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Materials, held at the University of California in Berkeley on July 10-11, 1958. The author is a member of the Institutum Historicum S. J. in Rome, Italy.
Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press
1959