The Complete Works of Diego Collado (ca. 1587-1641)

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During FY2022, some results of my research on Diego Collado, his activities and his works, were presented in four international conferences, two in Japan and two in Spain. The first ones were focused on Collado’s activities from 1625 to 1634 and presented some results of my research in Spanish archives in FY2021. In Spain, the main topic of one of my lectures was the importance of Nebrija in the works of Diego Collado and how this preference collided with the preferred grammarian of the Jesuits, Alvares.In collaboration with professors Marti-Oroval and Shimada, I have published a peer-reviewed article and a monograph about an important archival finding that sheds a significant new light about the context of Collado’s activities, especially regarding the controversies between religious orders about the evangelization of Japan. It is a document found in the Archivo Franciscano Ibero-Oriental (AFIO) that reflects a controversy between mendicants and Jesuits in the Tohoku area in 1626-1627. This document was probably sent by the Franciscans in Japan to Diego Collado to support his position against the Jesuits.In FY2022 my archival research was conducted in several Spanish libraries and archives, and in several ecclesiastical archives in Rome. In the first case, my main goal was to collect and study all the memorials written by Collado, which will be the subject of a monograph soon to be published. In the second one, I found a series of exceptional documents in a Roman archive, the most important of which are three Latin autograph works written by Collado previously unknown.