Hernando Pizarro and Orellana, native of Trujillo, is an illustrious member of the Pizarro family. He held various positions and titles: Knight of Calatrava, Commander of Betera (Valencia), intellectual, historian, jurist, Minister of the Supreme Council of Castile, compiler of the Kingdom’s law, Major Ensign of the city of Trujillo,...
We offer here a study and edition of what was probably the first newspaper of the Americas: the Journal of outstanding news in Lima and the News of Europe, which were printed in the workshops of Jose de Contreras and Alvarado between 1700 and 1711 in the capital of the...
The present book includes fourteen works that focus on the study of various colonial characters or very important persons who lived in the American Viceroys between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The approach of each is diverse, as were these personages and also the different strategies they used, not only...
Since in 1907 Father Domingo Angulo published his Santa Rosa de Santa María. Bibliographic study 110 years have passed, and also 400 years of which Leonardo Hansen called the precious death of the first American saint. Throughout these centuries, studies on Santa Rosa de Lima have multiplied favorably, but the...
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Andrés Ferrer de Valdecebro nació en Albarracín (Teruel) en 1620, en el seno de una familia instruida en la que encontró los primeros estímulos para las letras. Tras ingresar en la Orden de Predicadores y obtener el grado de Maestro en Sagrada Teología en el convento madrileño de Santo Tomás,...
Fray Antonio González Acuña, Bishop of Caracas, was the procurator of the cause of beatification of Rosa de Lima in Rome. This Lima’s native dressed early the habit of Santo Domingo in the great convent of the Rosario. There he became a professor and, later, at the Royal University of...
The popularity of the santarrosina legend crossed the borders, from Latin and Spanish of the territories of varied European languages. The Portuguese was not the exception as evidenced by the volume of Leonarda Gil da Gama, pseudonym of sor Madalena de Gloria. The famous Portuguese nun, "native of the sierra...
The Dominican Fray Jacinto Parra is a fundamental character for the consolidation of the santarrosino cult in the New and the Old World. His is the Spanish translation of the Vita mirabilis of his fellow Leonardo Hansen, but also compiled the important volume entitled Rosa laureada entre los santos, epitalamios...
The Dominican fray Jacinto Parra was widely involved in the santarrosino process. To him we owe the compilation of sermons and descriptions of festivals entitled Rosa laureada and, of course, the translation of the famous hagiography of Leonardo Hansen. Although Hansen's hagiography is not the first and Parra's translation does...
The bibliographical study of Father Domingo Angulo includes a very good synthesized chapter regarding the extraordinary celebrations with which the beatification of Santa Rosa was celebrated. The text compiles the festive activities celebrated on the occasion of the beatification of Rosa de Santa María that have been described in different...
The Editio Princeps of the Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa of the Dominican Fray Leonardo Hansen is from 1664. His work, which was part of the process for the beatification and subsequent canonization of Rosa de Lima, is the canonical hagiography of a santarrosino corpus that - for the second...