This book offers fifteen essays with different orientations on the influence of the Greco-Roman tradition on the cultural and political activity of viceregal Peru, from its arts, letters and philosophy, to its jurisprudence and historiography. According to Teodoro Hampe, «what is peculiar about the reception of classical culture in America...
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...