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,...
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...
Este libro ofrece un estudio de conjunto de la escritura cortesiana con el fin de esclarecer el proceso de construcción del yo que Hernán Cortés lleva a cabo a lo largo de su propio discurso. Sin eludir el diálogo con otros textos de la época, pero centrado en el corpus...