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Since in 1907 Father Domingo Angulo published his Santa Rosa de Santa María. Bibliographic study 110 years have passed, and also 400 years of which Leonardo Hansen called the precious death of the first American saint. Throughout these centuries, studies on Santa Rosa de Lima have multiplied favorably, but the...
The production of texts of the Jesus Company is certainly vast. In the same way that they produced emblem books to instruct in the Catholic faith, they wrote manuals on rhetoric that became famous in their time and are still today real bibliographical jewels. The treatise De arte rhetorica of...
Alonso Gutiérres, better known as Alfonso de la Veracruz, was born in Guadalajara (Spain). He was in charge of the first chair of philosophy in the Real y Pontificia Universidad de México in the Viceroyalty of Nueva España. After studying Grammar and rhetoric in the Universidad Complutense, he went to...
This volume includes different chapters of specialists and their approaches to the culture of the Viceroyalty of Nueva España. This is the reason of its title, Arte, cultura y poder en la Nueva España (Art, culture and power in Nueva España), indicates the interdisciplinary approach of the ensemble. The book,...
This is the manuscript of the first part of the Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí de Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela. The complete edition of this work was in charge of Lewis Hanke and Gunnar Mendoza (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1965). The work of Arzans de...
The «Quijote» from America (Second Part) is a homage to Don Quixote (1615) by a group of distinguished specialists from both sides of the Atlantic. It is a way of recognizing, and celebrating, the immediate arrival of the Cervantes masterpiece to America and its deep subsequent impact on many important...
His contemporaries knew him as El Lunarejo. Juan de Espinosa Medrano (1630? - 1688) was probably born at the town of Calcauso, part of the Doctrine of the Bishopry of Cuzco that today belongs to the Department of Apurimac. We ignore information about his parents’ biography and formative years. Nevertheless...
The eighteenth century gave birth to a celebrated character of the Peruvian history, whose memory has hardly survived until now, under the shadow of the Tradiciones peruanas (oral tradition stories) of Ricardo Palma, that called him “El Volador” (the flyer). This personage was Santiago de Cárdenas, native of Lima, ingenious...
Santiago de Cárdenas clearly mentions the geodesic expedition of France between its references, information taken not from the authors work, but from the expedition itself. He explicitly names Charles-Marie de La Condamine, its French Director, as well as the Spanish scientists Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa. Although the exact...