Sacral political description of the greatness of the city of Lima, and historical ecclesiastical compendium of its Holy Metropolitan Church Francisco de Echave y Assu, Caballero de Santiago, of Basque origin, was corregidor of the Cercado of Lima. He published in Antwerp La estrella de Lima … con motivo de...

Life of the Most Illustrious and Reverend D. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, Archbishop of the city of Los Reyes, Lima, Head of the provinces of Peru Sacred life written by Leon Pinelo and published in Madrid in 1653. The aparato (table of contents) reveals the structure of a conventional hagiography....

Joannis Christophori Calveti Stellae De rebus Vaccae Castri. Liber primus Bibliographic description De rebus Vaccae Castri (Praise of Vaca de Castro) is a Latin epic poem of the late sixteenth century,  preserved as a manuscript, and, preliminary version of the poem Vaccaeis by the same author, the renowned humanist Juan...

Rosa Limensis seu symbola quibus virtutes gesta et miracula Rosae de Sta. Maria exprimuntur autore Dominico Raccamadori... Fermo, 1711 Rosa Limensis seu symbola… is the only known book of emblems dedicated entirely to Santa Rosa de Lima. It is an emblematic hagiography, since the emblems illustrate the most remarkable passages of his...

Natalis Comitis mythologiae sive explicationum fabularum libri decem in quibus omnia propè Naturalis & Moralis Philosophia dogmata contenta fuisse demonstratur... Venecia, 1581 Mythology * by Natale Conti is, perhaps, one of the most influential mythographic treatises of the European Renaissance. Its author, born in Rome and based in Venice, witnessed...

This is perhaps the most important book for the political study of the Spanish emblem: the Emblemata centum regio politica by Juan de Solórzano Pereira are a clear example of how mythography, that is, the interpretation of the Greco-Latin myths, served as the underlying discourse for the formulation of government...