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The present edition, by María Inés Zaldívar Ovalle, gives the reader the Relationship that leaves upon his government Mr. Francisco de Borja y Aragón, Prince of Esquilache, viceroy of Peru between 1615 and 1621, and the subsequent Judgment of the Royal Council of the Indies, in 1626. It also includes,...
The epic poem Armas antárticas of Juan de Miramontes Zuázola, was written at the beginning of the seventeenth century, but did not see the light at his time. Only recently, in 2006, the researcher Paul Firbas, Director of our line of research on colonial epics, published, under the Fondo Editorial...
In the volume La Filomena y otras diversas rimas (La Filomena and several other rhymes) of Lope de Vega, printed in Madrid in 1621, appears the sixth epistle titled "Epistle from Amarilis to Belardo". In our Glosario de Indias (Glossary of Indies) there is an entry for these editions, It...
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....
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a pilgrim in fiction and in the real life. He was in Algiers, Italy and Portugal, but could not fulfill his dream of arriving in America. However, he applied to more than one post in the West Indies to serve as a Crown official. The...
In 1585 circulated in the Spanish world, within an extraordinary pastoral novel, La Galatea, the famous Canto de Calíope, series of Sicilian octaves with which Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra celebrated the poets of the Court of Felipe II. Therein the American scholars were also praised: De un Enrique Garcés, que...