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Manuel Quiroz y Campo Sagrado (c.1751-¿1820?) was a prolific Novohispanic poet. His work of unequal quality was found dispersed in different repositories and is kept both in manuscript and in printed form. Quiroz wrote lyrical and dramatic poetry where he approaches religious, circumstantial and patriotic subjects, these last ones from...
One of the topics that has most attracted the attention of Americanist critics has been the European in the imagination of America as a chimerical continent that brought together much of the hopes and fears of the Old World, as well as its projects of colonial domination. Such is the...
Barroco de ambos mundos. Miradas desde Puebla offers a series of interdisciplinary and transatlantic works on various themes and problems of this period, with particular attention to the modalities of the Indian Baroque. The diversity of approaches and reasons addressed, without claiming to be exhaust, allows us to take on...
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 book makes available to the reader a series of works dedicated to women of the viceregal America, women who were writers or protagonists of relevant events in the conquest of various territories of the region. Along with the studies dedicated to summits of colonial letters such as sor Juana...
The feminine culture during the Colony is the subject that Josefina Muriel develops throughout this work. She gives plenty of data on those our ancestor women that were the transmitters, although placed in a second plane, of the cultural values that constituted their world. It presents these women by what...
In the Golden Age the devil became one more creature in the list of recurring characters in the golden genres, such as the gallant, the clown or the villain. This collection of seven articles brings some approaches to the presence and functioning of the devil in different literary genres and...
The Biblioteca Áurea Digital (BIADIG) (Digital Golden Library (BIADIG)), part of GRISO's digital publications, has an extraordinary new book. This is the volume edited by Martina Vinatea and Álvaro Baraibar Viajes y ciudades míticas (Travels and mythical cities). The topics covered are various: chronicles, travel books, holiday relation (descriptions of...
The Indian pilgrim is a rare epic Novohispanic poem (because of the rarity of this kind of compositions) and not much frequented by scholars. Printed in Madrid in 1599, this extensive work was written by Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán (of whom little is known besides that he was great-grandson of...
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...
La portentosa Vida de la Muerte del franciscano Joaquín de Bolaños apareció por primera vez en México en 1792. Desde entonces no se volvió a publicar hasta 1983, en una edición facsímil también mexicana. Esta obra presenta una finalidad didáctico-doctrinal abiertamente declarada, pues trata la historia de la Muerte, cuya...