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The Discurso en loor de la poesía, an anonymous prologue to the Primera parte del Parnaso antártico de obras amatorias, by Diego Mexía de Fernangil (1608), is an exponent of the group of poems aimed at praising and defending poetry from those who do not consider the importance of its...
The American continent, during the modern era, was a woman. Letrados of the 16th and 17th centuries imagined it as an untamed Amazon surrounded by wild fauna. And, above all, anthropophagous. She was the antithesis of the Christian city, where idolatry reigned. It was then that the viceroyalties established a...
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This work is the first history of the Royal and Pontifical University of San Marcos in Lima, the oldest university on the American continent. In the first part of the text, a brief biography of the author is given: Fray Antonio de la Calancha. This Augustinian of the Viceroyalty of...
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Lima, the most important city in South America since the beginning of the 17th century, is described in Fundación y grandezas de la muy noble y muy leal Ciudad de los Reyes through a discourse that seeks the appropriation of space and time marking continuity with the European tradition. Lima...
Pedro de Oña, born in the territory of the Viceroyalty of Peru, in Chilean Angol, is one of the most important Creole writers to understand the political and cultural transition from the 16th to the 17th centuries. He is especially remembered for continuing the epic saga of La Araucana -initiated by...
We offer here a study and edition of what was probably the first newspaper of the Americas: the Journal of outstanding news in Lima and the News of Europe, which were printed in the workshops of Jose de Contreras and Alvarado between 1700 and 1711 in the capital of the...
Travellers to the New World. Foreigners in Lima, 1590-1640 analyses the integration strategies of the foreigners who lived in Lima in the years 1590-1640. This question is interesting because foreigners, according to the law, were forbidden to travel to the Indies, and even more so to trade with them, unless they had...
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...
The complete title of the work of Rodrigo de Valdés is Fundacion y Grandezas de la muy noble, y muy leal Civdad de los Reyes de Lima, insigne corte, Cabeza Tres vezes Coro- nada del Perv, Rico Lucido esmalte de la Corona de España, que ciñe, al Circulo Eterno de...