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This book offers fifteen essays with different orientations on the influence of the Greco-Roman tradition on the cultural and political activity of viceregal Peru, from its arts, letters and philosophy, to its jurisprudence and historiography. According to Teodoro Hampe, «what is peculiar about the reception of classical culture in America...
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In 1590, half a century after the founding of Lima, the monumental work of Father José de Acosta was published in Seville: Historia natural y moral de las Indias. This publication was not exempt from controversy from the accusation of plagiarism to Father Juan de Tovar, author of the First...
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...
The only translation made by the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega was Dialoghi d’amore (1535), from the Jew Portuguese writer Judah Abravanel, known as León Hebreo. The importance of the Spanish version of this work is not only because of the influence that León Hebreo had in the Comentarios reales of...
Il libro del Cortegiano del conde Baldassare Castiglione (Hispanicized as Baltasar Castiglione or Castellón) was published in the Aldina press in Venice in 1528. In the best style of the Italian humanism, El Cortesano is an essay on politics and manners, characteristic of the Courtesan literature, that is developed in a...
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...
Feijoo is one of the most important Spanish Enlightenment authors of the eighteenth century. His work will have a deep impact in the Spanish society because it is a pioneer effort in Spain to make an encyclopedia that collects extensive information. This effort that was born in France some decades...