Capuchin Missionary Entering Village, Sogno, Kingdom of Kongo, 1740s

Shows missionary, Bernardino Ignazio, with large crowd of Africans and prince of Sonho bowing in front of him. Caption notes that image depicts the prince of Sonho bowing in front of Ignazio in repentance for having mistreated another Capuchin missionary, Gaspare da Bassano, who preceded him in the area. Ignazio was greeted with honors and he revoked the excommunication of the prince. This source in Italian is a modern printing of a 1747 manuscript (located in the Biblioteca Civica of Turin) which describes Capuchin expeditions to the Kingdom of Kongo. The watercolor paintings record moments in the daily lives of missionaries Bernardino Ignazio and Gaspare da Bassano, who were resident in Sogno from 1743-1747. Sogno (Sonyo in English) was a province of the kingdom. The illustrations and accompanying manuscript were done by Ignazio. (Thanks to James Sweet for assistance in interpreting the source.)

Image Title

Capuchin Missionary Entering Village, Sogno, Kingdom of Kongo, 1740s

RegID

SI-OB-685

Date

1740-1750

Title

Capuchin Missionary Entering Village, Sogno, Kingdom of Kongo, 1740s

Source

Paola Collo and Silvia Benso (eds.), Sogno: Bamba, Pemba, Ovando e altre contrade dei regni di Congo, Angola e adjacenti (Milan: published privately by Franco Maria Ricci, 1986), p. 145.

Language

Italian

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Spatial Coverage

Africa--West Central North

Reproduced In

Paola Collo and Silvia Benso (eds.), Sogno: Bamba, Pemba, Ovando e altre contrade dei regni di Congo, Angola e adjacenti (Milan: published privately by Franco Maria Ricci, 1986), p. 145.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

sogno145