The extensive and careful volume composed by limeño Diego Flores reveals the complex administrative, cultural and commercial dimension of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Flores, its erudite and polished author born in Los Reyes de Lima, was -as he declares in his dedication to Felipe III- one of the first students...

The Catholic Church pushed for the creation of a more accurate calendar to correct the time lag of the Julian calendar: some religious feasts were celebrated at inappropriate times of the year. Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) established a scientific commission that included the Italian chronologist Louis Lilio, the Jesuit Christophorus...

Doctrina christiana, y catecismo para instrvccion de los indios, y de las de mas perʃonas, que han de ʃer enʃeñadas en nueʃtra ʃancta fe : con vn confessionario, y otras cosas neceʃʃʃarias was published in Lima, Peru, in 1584. It was the first book printed in South America. It was...

This document was produced within the framework of the evangelizing project in which the Third Council of Lima was involved. The Confesionario para los curas de indios, con instrucciones para sus ritos y para la extremaunción, y un resumen de los privilegios e impedimentos del matrimonio was printed in Lima...

The evangelizing project of the Third Council of Lima was materialized in a documentary corpus in a trilingual version (Spanish, Quechua and Aymara) that inaugurated the printing press in South America. An attempt was made to unify the evangelization strategies and a broad regulation was developed that was in force...

The publication of this important book in Lima in 1586 is a direct consequence of the Third Council of Lima. Precisely, one of these important guidelines was to develop a vocabulary or grammar of the Quechua language for the benefit of evangelization campaigns. This is confirmed by Antonio Ricardo, printer...

This print is located within the texts that narrate the naval battle between Beltrán de Castro and Richard Hawkins, one of the most feared English corsairs, it was a well documented event. This maritime feat appears in several texts by famous writers, as Pedro de Oña recounts it in songs...

Richard Hawkins, one of the most feared corsairs of the English crown, participated among other events in the Caribbean campaign of Francis Drake and was a soldier of the English troops that defeated the Invincible Armada of Felipe II. He sailed from the port of Plymouth in 1592 and took...

Praecepta grammatices is the only known printed work of the Augustinian father Julián Martel, whose biography is known thanks to the work of his coreligionist, Bernardo de Torres. Martel was born in Granada to noble parents: Miguel Martel and Inés Flores. From an early age, he felt inclinations both for...

Juan de Vega was the first Franciscan provincial of the Kingdom of Chile. He was an active member of the seraphic order, always ready to recruit new friars to take them to the New World. That did not prevent him from holding political office, as a confessor to Viceroy García...

The first writer recognized as Chilean, Pedro de Oña, published in the Renaissance the epic poem Arauco Domado in the Viceroyalty of Peru (Lima, Antonio Ricardo, 1596). This text is linked to the literary cycle that narrates the exploits of the American peoples, in which reality is confused with fiction...

The atmosphere of prosperity that existed thanks to the exploitation of the American mines contrasted with the martyrdom that the conversion of monetary units meant in the viceroyalties such as in Peru. For this reason, as Margarita Suárez points out, books appeared such as Juan de Belveder's Libro general de...