This book makes available to the reader a series of works dedicated to women of the viceregal America, women who were writers or protagonists of relevant events in the conquest of various territories of the region. Along with the studies dedicated to summits of colonial letters such as sor Juana...
The Proyecto de Estudios Indianos inaugurates with the Amarilis Library a series of digital collections that gather the volumes that occupied the shelves of the American writers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Libraries are a valuable tool for understanding the books and for reconstructing the ideological borders that...
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...
Printed in 1598 in Madrid, this work of Lope de Vega had throughout the sixteenth century some twenty editions. It represents a fundamental moment of artistic and literary syncretism to understand the development of the Letters during the seventeenth century, both in Spain as in the American viceroyalties. It is...
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 introduction of the symbol of faith is an essential text for the studies of modern Catholicism, especially for those dedicated to asceticism. Encyclopedic work, it summarizes the knowledge proper to Hispanic Christianity that includes the Peninsula and the New World. Nevertheless, it was a book many times criticized: “The...
The heuristic value of the Historical Archive of the Municipality of Lima is undeniable for scholars of the American viceregal culture. You will find from the minutes of the foundation of Lima or beginnings of the Ciudad de los Reyes until the Act of Independence signed in 1821. In this...
In the summer of 1641, at the same time with the feast of the Virgen del Carmen, some extraordinary public celebrations were held in the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which is now possible to evoke thanks to the recent retrieval of several texts related to that court theatre...
In the Golden Age the devil became one more creature in the list of recurring characters in the golden genres, such as the gallant, the clown or the villain. This collection of seven articles brings some approaches to the presence and functioning of the devil in different literary genres and...
The Biblioteca Digital Mundial (World Digital Library in English BDM, WDL) was created in 2009 thanks to an initiative of the Library of Congress of the United States of America and UNESCO. It collects the documentary heritage of humanity in collaboration with libraries around the world. We share the celebrated...
Joannes de Laet, Director of the Dutch West Indies Company, is the author of one of the most notable works of the XVII century on America: Novvs orbis, seu, Descriptionis indiae occidentalis. It is constituted by XVIII (18) books and complemented with diverse illustrations of the natural world and unpublished...
The Biblioteca Áurea Digital (BIADIG) (Digital Golden Library (BIADIG)), part of GRISO's digital publications, has an extraordinary new book. This is the volume edited by Martina Vinatea and Álvaro Baraibar Viajes y ciudades míticas (Travels and mythical cities). The topics covered are various: chronicles, travel books, holiday relation (descriptions of...