The Hispanic Society of America preserves a manuscript copy that should have been printed in Seville in 1621, but for some reason never appeared published. It is Historia del huérfano, written by Andrés de León (pseudonym of Martín de León y Cárdenas). She narrates, in the third person, the life...
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Corónica Moralizada del Orden de San Agustín en el Perú, by Fray Antonio de la Calancha, is a complex work that unfortunately, due to its originality and extension, has been little studied and often misunderstood. The first part that is shared and commented here is a chronicle that combines the...
The present book includes fourteen works that focus on the study of various colonial characters or very important persons who lived in the American Viceroys between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The approach of each is diverse, as were these personages and also the different strategies they used, not only...
Raúl Marrero-Fente, Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017. ISBN: 978-84- 16922-34- 5 This book offers the most extensive study published so far on colonial epic poetry of the XVI century. This poetic genre of medieval tradition is renewed during the conquest...
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,...
Gómez Suárez de Figueroa is the name the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was called by his acquaintances. He was born in Cuzco on 12 April 1539. He descends on his mother's side, Isabel Isabel Chimpu Ocllo, from the Incas Tupac Yupanqui and Huayna Capac. By his father, Captain Sebastian...
This is the most famous work of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, commonly named Los comentarios reales. In the XX century, this book is known as a text that should be approached from different perspectives. In Los comentarios reales, the Inca consecrates himself as a mestizo writer who was...
This work, also known as Segunda parte de los Comentarios reales (Second part of the Comentarios Reales), was announced in the introduction of the translation of Diálogos de amor in 1586. Although the chronicle work of the Inca was conceived as a unit, this second part was printed separately, as...
The First part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro Cieza de León is described by the BNE as part of the library of the Inca Garcilaso: Among the chronicles of Peruvian material published before the Comentarios reales, we find the chronicle of the Pedro Cieza de León, born in...
The first part is known as Hispania Victrix; the second part is titled Historia de la conquista de México. The defense that the author adopted through his work in the two parts is due to his political project: The figure of Hernán Cortés is the culmination of the great theopolitical...
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,...