The introduction of the symbol of faith is an essential text for the studies of modern Catholicism, especially for those dedicated to asceticism. Encyclopedic work, it summarizes the knowledge proper to Hispanic Christianity that includes the Peninsula and the New World. Nevertheless, it was a book many times criticized: “The...
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,...
The Bible of the Poors, is a 15th-century woodcut book that shows how the process of evangelization was aware of new writing technologies. Handwritten religious books with miniatures did not offer the diffusion required by the clergy. Thus, this Bible was advanced at least a decade to the Gutenberg Bible....
The present edition of 1615, by Diego López, includes valuable elements for the dissemination of the work of Alciato in the Spanish world. The emblems by Alciato thanks to this edition (later reprinted at the end of the century), circulated with the Castilian version of the comments of the Brocense...
In 1585 circulated in the Spanish world, within an extraordinary pastoral novel, La Galatea, the famous Canto de Calíope, series of Sicilian octaves with which Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra celebrated the poets of the Court of Felipe II. Therein the American scholars were also praised: De un Enrique Garcés, que...
Autoridad jesuita y saber universal ensaya una nueva aproximación a la Libra astronómica y filosófica de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora respecto de la polémica entablada con Eusebio Francisco Kino y su Exposición astronómica del cometa. Además de situar ambos tratados cometarios en la tradición astronómica europea y colonial del...
Marrero-Fente, Raúl, Trayectorias globales: Estudios Coloniales en el mundo hispánico 2013, 177 pp. ISBN: 978-84-8489-731-6 Este libro propone una revisión del estudio de los orígenes del imperio español en el siglo XVI a partir de una perspectiva global. La tesis central de esta investigación es que para llegar a entender...
Natalis Comitis mythologiae sive explicationum fabularum libri decem in quibus omnia propè Naturalis & Moralis Philosophia dogmata contenta fuisse demonstratur... Venecia, 1581 Mythology * by Natale Conti is, perhaps, one of the most influential mythographic treatises of the European Renaissance. Its author, born in Rome and based in Venice, witnessed...
This is perhaps the most important book for the political study of the Spanish emblem: the Emblemata centum regio politica by Juan de Solórzano Pereira are a clear example of how mythography, that is, the interpretation of the Greco-Latin myths, served as the underlying discourse for the formulation of government...