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...
The Editio Princeps of the Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa of the Dominican Fray Leonardo Hansen is from 1664. His work, which was part of the process for the beatification and subsequent canonization of Rosa de Lima, is the canonical hagiography of a santarrosino corpus that - for the second...
Charles du Fresne, Monsieur du Cange, was a French jurist who held important positions for the crown. Nevertheless, his academic prestige is due especially to his great contributions in the study of Byzantine history and in the development of classical philology. In this last field, Du Cange (as he is...
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...
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...
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...
The Memorias de Trévoux is a particularly curious work: it is an encyclopedic dictionary written collectively by the Jesuits, throughout most of the eighteenth century, in the city of Trévoux, where one of the most important Jesuits colleges was located. As an encyclopedia, it has a secular style different from...
The Italian humanist Bartolomeo Sacchi is remembered and known more as Bartolomeo Platina (il Platina). He was a notable man in his time: preceptor of the Medicis, of the son of King Luis III Gonzaga, secretary of the popes Pius II and Paul II, and, finally, director of the...
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....
Esta obra es la reproducción facsimilar, junto con una versión castellana, del más antiguo texto impreso acerca de la Universidad de México, escrito muy poco después de que esa institución inaugurara solemnemente sus cursos el día 3 de junio de 1553. Proporciona noticias sobre sus varias cátedras y quienes las...
This volume initiates, on the one hand, the contributions of friendly collectors. Fred Rohner, a philologist nowadays dedicated to the study of popular literature and music of the 19th century, has given us this interesting compendium of classical authors (Lucretius, Horacio, Virgilio, Ovidio, Juvenal) printed in Lima in 1795 is...
Joannes de Laet, Director of the Dutch West Indies Company, is the author of one of the most notable works of the XVII century on America: Novvs orbis, seu, Descriptionis indiae occidentalis. It is constituted by XVIII (18) books and complemented with diverse illustrations of the natural world and unpublished...