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This collective volume brings together a dozen works focused on three thematic lines: transatlantic journeys, the chronicles of the Indies and the colonial epic poetry, which are approached from different critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. They are analyzed from general aspects like the necessity of a pertinent philological annotation of the...
Little is known about the early years of Bernardo de Balbuena (Valdepeñas 1562-San Juan de Puerto Rico 1627), except that he traveled very young to America where his father had business in Nueva Galicia. Some sources find him in the cities of Guadalajara and Mexico, where he apparently studied arts...
The remarkable digital platform of the National Library of Portugal keeps valuable prints that constitute one of the Hispanic cultural heritage of modern times. The history between Spain and Portugal is brought together in one of its most representative figures of the sixteenth century: the miner and translator Henrique Garcés....
The complete title of the work of Rodrigo de Valdés is Fundacion y Grandezas de la muy noble, y muy leal Civdad de los Reyes de Lima, insigne corte, Cabeza Tres vezes Coro- nada del Perv, Rico Lucido esmalte de la Corona de España, que ciñe, al Circulo Eterno de...
The Indian pilgrim is a rare epic Novohispanic poem (because of the rarity of this kind of compositions) and not much frequented by scholars. Printed in Madrid in 1599, this extensive work was written by Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán (of whom little is known besides that he was great-grandson of...
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...