General history of things in Nueva España is an encyclopaedic work on the people and culture of central Mexico, compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590), a Franciscan missionary who arrived in New Spain in 1529, eight years after the end of the Spanish conquest by Hernán Cortés. Commonly called...
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...
With this English title America: being an accurate description of the New World, 1671: containing the origin of the inhabitants; the remarkable voyages thither: the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, their ancient and later vvars. With their several plantations, many, and rich islands; their cities, fortresses,...
This volume initiates, on the one hand, the contributions of friendly collectors. Fred Rohner, a philologist nowadays dedicated to the study of popular literature and music of the 19th century, has given us this interesting compendium of classical authors (Lucretius, Horacio, Virgilio, Ovidio, Juvenal) printed in Lima in 1795 is...
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...
During the old regime, in the Hispanic scope, there were many institutions and foundations, promoted and supported by the civil society, that had a religious purpose, while they performed an important economic and social function. Among them were the brotherhoods, the pious works and the chaplaincies for the Mass. The...
When we think on the economy of the American viceroyalties, we consider immediately the extraction of natural resources and the creation of new enterprises or industries in the New World. Few scholars, except persons like María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano, have taken the responsibility of studying how credit was the...