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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...
We know of the existence of La Florida del Inca, thanks to the dedicatory of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to King Phillip II on his translation of Diálogos de Amor (dated 1586), although this book was printed afterwards in 1605. In order to write this work, Inca Garcilaso...
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...
In the inventory of goods of the Inca Garcilaso, appears in folio 522r (the sixth of the list) a book of Josefo with the abbreviated title De antiquitatibus. The work of Flavius Josephus, originally written in Greek, was printed in Latin in 1539 in Lyon (Lugdunum). Its title, as it...
This is the manuscript of the first part of the Historia de la Villa Imperial de Potosí de Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela. The complete edition of this work was in charge of Lewis Hanke and Gunnar Mendoza (Providence, R.I.: Brown University Press, 1965). The work of Arzans de...
Louis Moreri was a French scholar of the seventeenth century, author of the historical Dictionary by which he became well known during the seventeenth and the eighteenth. His work was a forerunner of the encyclopedists, because it corresponded with the beginning of the Enlightenment. Like many authors before L'Encyclopédie, Moreri’s...
With Philippus Prudens, a genealogical historical treatise written in Latin, the Cistercian priest Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, pursues to demonstrate the legitimate majesty of Philip II over the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve. He is against the image of Philip II as "usurper" of the throne of Don Alfonso Henriques....
Libro dela vida y milagros de Nvestro Señor Ieʃu Chriʃto en dos lenguas, aymara, y romance, traducido de el que recopilo el licenciado Alonso de Villegas se publicó en Juli, Perú, en 1612. El libro relata de forma comprensiva la vida de Cristo, en 51 capítulos. El texto se presenta...