Inspired by the title of the work of Diego Dávalos Figueroa, Nueva Miscelánea Austral is a selection of colonial texts (either by its origin or subject) prepared by the Proyecto de estudios indianos (PEI). Different private and public institutions with the support of servers like Google have digitized enormous volumes of texts of the past centuries. Those of colonial material are no exception, so the PEI offers to users a digital shelf in which digitized books are shown with a proper description for their convenience.
The present edition of 1615, by Diego López, includes valuable elements for the dissemination of the work of Alciato in the Spanish world. The emblems by Alciato thanks to this edition (later reprinted at the end of the century), circulated with the Castilian version of the comments of the Brocense...
In 1585 circulated in the Spanish world, within an extraordinary pastoral novel, La Galatea, the famous Canto de Calíope, series of Sicilian octaves with which Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra celebrated the poets of the Court of Felipe II. Therein the American scholars were also praised: De un Enrique Garcés, que...
The Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM has created a digital library that gathers critical editions of Novohispanic texts, arranged in the HTML format. The BdPn is a project dedicated to the publication of critical editions of printed texts and manuscripts published in Nueva España (Mexico) during the...
In Lima, in the year 1641, the poem Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana en el Perú composed by the Augustinian, member of the Holy Office (Inquisición), Fernando de Valverde. The poem, composed of 18 silvas, is dedicated to the Virgin and its sanctuary of Copacabana. Carlos García Bedoya, in...
Taken from the Portal de Archivos Españoles: Informaciones de oficio y parte: Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Limpia Concepción de Lima, fundado por Inés Muñoz de Ribera, su abadesa. Constan su primer y segundo maridos, Francisco Martín de Alcántara y Antonio de Ribera, su hijo Antonio de Ribera y...
Luis Antonio de Oviedo and Herrera, Conde of the Granja, published in Madrid the year 1711 one of the most relevant epic poems of the Viceroyalty of Peru: Vida de Santa Rosa (Life of Saint Rose) is a clear example of the totalizing imperial discourse of the epic: to the...
With the complete name of Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714 (1717) was published in Amsterdam the work of Louis Amadeo Frezier. This is the result of the trip for two...
This catalog, prepared by Luis Romera Iruela and María del Carmen Galbin Diez, provides information on the personal data and on the geographical origin of the passengers coming to the Indies. These files seized information from the files of passengers who came to America to perform various crafts: as specialists...
A new reading of colonial epic poetry is proposed by Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo with his book Lima fundada o conquista del Perú. The symbols in the poems of the Arauco, Armas Antárticas and in the sacred or hagiographic epic sacra of La Cristiada of Diego de Hojeda and the...
The Foundations Ignacio Larramendi and MAPFRE have arranged in cyberspace an important collection of scientific texts related to the discovery of America that profits their digitizations by various public or private entities: The discovery of America, its methodical exploration, the analysis of the languages spoken by the native Americans, and...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...
At the end of the government of a Viceroy, this authority prepared a memorial in which he reported on the events lived in the kingdom during his administration, the possibilities that could be exploited in the future, among other matters. The aim was that the new Viceroy could learn this...