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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...
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is considered the first modern atlas, whose first edition, in Antwerp, dates from 1570. The volume is the work of the flamenco Abraham Ortelius, who was named, after 5 years of having published his famous work, royal cartographer of Felipe II of Spain. Certainly this position...