Manuel Villegas Piñateli was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1714 to 15 October 1752.
Madrid, Imprenta del convento de la Merced), 2 vols (1736)[2].
In the book he talks about the travels by Jesuit father Antonio Possevino[3] (born 1534, Ferrara, Italy; died February 26, 1611) acting as papal legate circa 1580.
Possevino was the first Jesuit to visit Moscow, and was vicar general of Sweden, Denmark and the northern islands, Muscovy, Livonia, Rus, Hungary, Pomerania, Saxony from 1578.
Villegas was buried at the Chapel of the Christ of Burgos in the Church of San Nicolás, Madrid.