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.
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...
