A reading guide on Padre Kino 



BIBLIOGRAPHIE




  

VARIOUS AUTHORS. La nostra Geografia - P. Kino da Segno alla California. Editore, Sezione Trentino Alto Adige dell'Associazione Italiana Insegnanti di Geografia Trento 2005. Monography NEW

ACUÑA GALVEZ, R. CRUZ. El Romance del Padre Kino. México. Editorial Jus,1970; Collección México Heroico Nún. 104.

BANNON, JOHN FRANCIS, S.J. The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970; 308 pp. One of the better studies on northern New Spain.

BOLOGNANI, BONIFACIO.  Padre e Pioniere: Esuebio Francesco Chini, S.J., Missionario, Scrittore, e Geografo (1645-1711).  Trento: Edizioni Biblioteca PP. Francescani, 1983.  One of Kino’s most knowledgeable and enthusiastic promotors.   

BERNARDINI, FULVIO (Fulber). GARY. La leggenda di Kino il Vestenera- Rotta a Vera Cruz. LAPIS LAPSUS EDIZIONI, 2005 - Cartoon  NEW

BOLTON, HERBERT E.  Padre on Horseback. San Francisco: Sonora Press, 1932.  Reprint, Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1963; introduction by John F. Bannon, S.J.  Il Padre a Cavallo Italian translation by Associazione Culturale Padre Eusebio F. Chini.

The Rim of Christendom.  New York:  Macmillan, 1936.  Reprint, New York: Russell and Russell, 1960. Reprint, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984.  This remains the definitive biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino.

BURRUS, ERNEST J., S.J.  Kino and Manje, Explorers of Sonora and Arizona.  Rome and St. Louis:  Jesuit Historical Institute, 1971.  Critical text edition of the Manje diaries.

Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain.  Tucson: Arizona Pioneer's Historical Society, 965.  A complete  complete compilation of known maps by Kino. 

CALARCO, DOMENICO.  L’Apostolo dei Pima: Il metodo di evangelizzazione di Eusebio Francesco Chini missionario gesuita pioniere delle Costo del Pacifico (1645-1711).  Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana, 1995.  A theological appraisal of Kino’s mission methods.   

Eusebio Francesco Chini, Epistolario.  Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana, 1998. A detailed collection of all letters of Padre Kino from Archives of America and Europe.

Un uomo dal cuore in fiamme, profilo spirituale di Eusebio Francesco Chini (1645-1711), Roma, Editrice Città Nuova, 2003. The purpose of the author is to point out in this book the spirtuality of the missionary.  NEW

CAVINI, VITTORIO.  L’Avventura di Kino.  Bologna: Editrice Missionaria Italiana della Coop. Sermis, 1990.  Kino continues to capture the Italian mind and heart. 

CHINI MARCO BENEDETTO: Memorie e genealogia dei Chini di Segno d'Anaunia. The book of the Kino's family genealogy in Val di Non. By the Associazione Culturale Padre Eusebio Chini of Segno. 

CLARK, ANN NOLAN. Father Kino, Priest to the Pimas. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.  For children 7 to 12 years. 

CLEVENGER BEN: The Far Side of the Sea.  a Novel on the life of Padre Eusebio Kino.  Historical fiction, reading like a novel, based on the facts of the Padre's very interesting life. JFSA Publications, Fountain Hill, AZ, 365 Pages, 2003. NEW

DONOHUE, JOHN AUGUSTINE, S. J.  After Kino: Jesuit Missions in Northwestern New Spain, 1711/1767.  Rome and St. Louis: Jesuit Historical Institute, 1969.  Mostly about the Pimería Alta up to the expulsion. 

ECKHART, GEORGE B. and James S. Griffith.  Temples in the Wilderness: Spanish Churches of Northern Sonora. Tucson:  Arizona Historical Society, Historical Monograph #3, 1975.  Brief histories and descriptions of the major churches in the mission chain.   

FRIZZERA SANDRA. Cavalcando verso il cielo. Editrice Vita Trentina, edition of the Associazione Padre Eusebio Francesco Chini, 1997. The story of Padre Kino especially  for young readers.

FRANCESCOTTI, RENZO.  Saguaro: Diario lirico di Padre Chini.  Trento: Edizioni - U. C. T., 1992.  Tribute to ideas inspired by events in Kino’s life. 

GUNDOLF. HUBERT.  Der reitende Padre: Auf den Spuren des Welschtiroler Jesuiten-missionars Eusebio Kino in Amerika.  Schwaz: Berenkamp (Austria), 1995.  A well crafted mini-biography in German.

KELLY Annamaria: Kino alla conquista dell'America. Tucson, Jesuit Historical Institute, 1978.

KENNEDY, ROGER.  Mission: The History and Architecture of the Missions of North America.  Edited by David Larkin.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1993.  Beautiful and informative photographs with a text that presents the strength of the presence of Spanish missions in the United States.

KESSELL, JOHN L.  Mission of Sorrows: Jesuit Guevavi and the Pimas.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1970.  The Pimería Alta missions as seen from the perspective of Guevavi’s history.

Friars, Soldiers and Reformers: Hispanic Arizona and the Sonoran Mission Frontier, 1767/1858. Tucson:   The University of Arizona Press, 1976.  The Franciscan Pimería Alta as seen from the vantage point of Tumacácori mission.

KINO, EUSEBIO FRANCISCO, S. J.  Historical Memoir of the Pimería Alta.  Herbert Bolton, trans.  Cleveland: Arthur Clark Co., 1919. 2 vols.  Reprint: Berkeley: University of California, 1948.  2 vols. in one.

Kino's Biography of Francisco Javier Saeta.  Translated and with an Epilogue by Charles W. Polzer, S. J.; original Spanish transcription edited by Ernest J. Burrus, S. J.  Rome and St. Louis:  Jesuit Historical Institute, 1971.

Kino's Plan for Development of the Pimería Alta.  Ernest J. Burrus, S. J., trans.  Tucson: Arizona Pioneer's Historical Society, 1961.

Kino Reports to Headquarters. Ernest Burrus, S. J., trans.  Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu,  1954.  

Kino Writes to the Duchess. Ernest J. Burrus, S. J. trans.  Rome: Institutum Historicum SocietatisJesu, 1965.

LOCKWOOD, FRANK C.  With Padre Kino on the Trail.  Tucson: The University of Arizona, 1934.  Social Science Bulletin No.5.  A scholar/colleague of Bolton with his own view of Kino and the missions.

LORENZI, GUIDO.  La Croce nel Deserto: Eusebio Francesco Chini, S.J., 1645-1711.  Trento: Provincia Autonoma di Trento, 1986.  A delightful tour of the Kino missions with artwork by Fernando Inama.

MANJE, JUAN MATEO.  Luz de Tierra Incognita: Unknown Arizona and Sonora, 1693÷1701. Translated by Harry J. Karns.  Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes, 1954.  The diaries of Kino's trail companion.  

MARCHETTI ANGELA MARIA.  Un Trentino nell’America del ‘600. Il Servo di Dio Eusebio Francesco Kino, Missionario, esploratore ed astronomo. Torino: Edizioni San Paolo, 1996. A deep analysis of the spirituality of the Padre Kino.

NENTWIG, JUAN.  Rudo Ensayo: A Description of Sonora and Arizona in 1764.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1980.  Translated by Albert F. Pradeau and Robert R. Rasmussen.  A good historical overview; caution is urged in the botanical section.  

NORIS
CAVINI SILVIA: Gli Indiani di ChinoAn analytic approach of the anthropological and geographical environment of the Pimería Alta at the time of Kino.

OLVERA  JORGE. Finding Father’s Kino Grave. Tucson, Southwest Mission Research Center, 1999. The discovery of the grave of the Padre written by a member of the research team.

PFEFFERKORN, IGNAZ.  Sonora: A Description of the Province.  Translated by Theodore E. Treutlein. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949.  A classic contemporary account. 

POLZER, CHARLES W., S. J.  Rules and Precepts of the Jesuit Missions of Northwestern New Spain.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1976.

Kino Guide II.  Tucson, Southwestern Mission Research Center, 1968.  A popular overview of  Kino and his missions and monuments.  1982.

Kino A Legacy:  His Life, His Works, His Missions, His Monuments.  Tucson: Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona, l998.  A fuller treatment than his earlier Kino Gude II.

Kino Un'Eredità.  Segno:Associazino Culturale di P. Chini, 2000.  An Italian language edition of Kino: A Legacy.

PROVINCIA AUTONOMA DI TRENTO.  Padre Kino: L’avventura di Eusebio Francesco Chini, S.J (1645-1711).  Trento: Provincia di Trento, 1988.  Essays on Kino in English, Italian, and Spanish from 1986 Conference.

RIZZARDI GINO. Eusebio, free Edition. Booklet simple  and  joyful on the life of Padre Kino written by a priest of the province of Trento; very indicated for young readers,  Trento 1992.

ROCA, PAUL M.  Paths of the Padres Through Sonora.  Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 1967.  A travelog history of most Sonoran mission sites; historical accounts require critical appraisal.

SMITH, FAY JACKSON, John Kessell, and Francis Fox, S. J.  Father Kino in Arizona.  Phoenix: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966. This book contains a more complete bibliography on Kino.

SPICER, EDWARD H  Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533/1960.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1962.  The classic anthropological study of the region.

STEFFAN, JACK. Kino and the Trail to the Pacific.  New York: P. J. Kennedy, 1960.  For younger readers.  

SÜDDEUTSCHEN JESUITEN: Der reitende Pater Eusebio Kino S.J. - A text taken from the documentary of the South German Jesuits "Zu Pferd durch die Wüste, Der Forscher und Missionar Eusebio Kino S:J" - German Editon, München, Mmarch 2002.

THAYER, JOHN.  Desert Padre, Eusebio Francisco Kino.  Milwaukee: Bruce, 1959.  Another book for the young reader.  

TRUEBA, ALFONSO.  El Padre Kino: Misionero Itinerante y Ecuestre.  México: Editorial Jus, 1960;  Figuras y Episodios Núm. 23.

WEBER, DAVID J.  The Spanish Frontier in North America.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992.  Good background to understand the mission program; generally fair and balanced.

 WOODWARD, ARTHUR, and SCOFIELD DELONG and LEFFLER MILLER.  The Missions of Northern Sonora:  A 1935 Field Documentation.  Edited by Buford Pickens.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.  Well illustrated and good drawings.

WYLLYS, RUFUS KAY.  Pioneer Padre: the Life and Times of Eusebio Francisco Kino.  Dallas: Southwest Press, 1935.  Not as definitive as Bolton’s Rim, but a deserving life of Padre Kino.  



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