Le Guide Impossibili
5554 Sogno
Bamba, Pemba, Ovando e altre contrade dei Regni di Congo, Angola e adiacenti
Edited by Gianni Guadalupi. Texta by Paolo Collo, Silvia Benso, Giovanni Antonio Covazzi da Montecuccolo, Serafino da Cortona, Giuseppe Munari da Modena, Bernardo da Gallo
1986 / 216 PAGES.
Language: Italian
17th-century Angola seen by the devout, curious Capuchin friars in search of souls, between boas, lust and Portuguese slave traders. The Black Africa discovered by European explorers – fascinating, inhospitable and pestilential – lives on in an unpublished 18th-century work.
A few Capuchin missionaries describe their travels between Congo, Angola and the neighbouring countries. In addition to news on their evangelisation activities and religious missions, these writings contain useful details for crossing the Congolese rivers, travelling by land between places on a “moveable mission”, treating the most common and unpleasant ailments and, above all, for how to behave with the natives. These stories are enhanced by comic strip-style watercolour illustrations chronicling fragments in the life of the local peoples.