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This book presents a study and critical edition of the poem Obra nuevamente compuesta... (1571) by Bartolomé de Flores, considered the first poem in Spanish about North America and the only poetic testimony to Pedro Menéndez de Avilés's victory over the French Huguenots in Florida in 1565. The poem offers...
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...
Within the framework of the Anthology of Burlesque Literature of the Golden Age, undertaken from the project Identidades y alteridades. La burla como diversión y arma social en la literatura y cultura del Siglo de Oro (FFI2017-82532-P, MICINN / AEI / FEDER, UE), this volume is dedicated to the materials...
The Hispanic Society of America preserves a manuscript copy that should have been printed in Seville in 1621, but for some reason never appeared published. It is Historia del huérfano, written by Andrés de León (pseudonym of Martín de León y Cárdenas). She narrates, in the third person, the life...
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...
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This collective volume brings together a dozen works focused on three thematic lines: transatlantic journeys, the chronicles of the Indies and the colonial epic poetry, which are approached from different critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. They are analyzed from general aspects like the necessity of a pertinent philological annotation of the...
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...
The present book includes fourteen works that focus on the study of various colonial characters or very important persons who lived in the American Viceroys between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The approach of each is diverse, as were these personages and also the different strategies they used, not only...
The hagiographies of nuns proliferated in the New Spain’s XVII century and the Jesuits were the paladins in terms of these novelistic manifestations. Inspired by the personal ambitions of the authors for cultivating holiness in unsuspected people, the texts, part medieval exemplum, part fantastic novel, wove stories with excessive miracles...