In 1590, half a century after the founding of Lima, the monumental work of Father José de Acosta was published in Seville: Historia natural y moral de las Indias. This publication was not exempt from controversy from the accusation of plagiarism to Father Juan de Tovar, author of the First...
The Arte de la lengua general del Ynga llamada qquechhua (Art of the general language of the Ynga called qquechhua) reflects, in part, the monumental work of Esteban Sancho de Melgar. Only with the manuscript Lucerna indica a better evaluation of the same is reached. In this work (which we now know...
In the middle of the XX century, Paul Rivet and Georges de Créqui-Montfort gave the reference of an important Peruvian manuscript for the teaching of Quechua, guarded in the National Archive of Colombia. Today we know that it is guarded in the Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia and that, moreover, is...
This is the most famous work of the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, commonly named Los comentarios reales. In the XX century, this book is known as a text that should be approached from different perspectives. In Los comentarios reales, the Inca consecrates himself as a mestizo writer who was...
This work, also known as Segunda parte de los Comentarios reales (Second part of the Comentarios Reales), was announced in the introduction of the translation of Diálogos de amor in 1586. Although the chronicle work of the Inca was conceived as a unit, this second part was printed separately, as...
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...
Art and vocabulary of the general language of Peru, called Quechua, and the Spanish language. The most copious and elegant, which has now been printed, was published in Lima, Peru, in 1614. The book provides a detailed description of Quechua, the predominant language of the Inca people. His introduction covers...
Grammatica and art nveva dela general lengva of all Peru, called Qquichua language, or language of the Inca was published in Lima, Peru, in 1607. This volume is one of the first records of a language that did not have a system written before the Spanish conquest. It is a...
Doctrina christiana, y catecismo para instrvccion de los indios, y de las de mas perʃonas, que han de ʃer enʃeñadas en nueʃtra ʃancta fé : con vn confessionario, y otras cosas neceʃʃarias se publicó en Lima, Perú, en 1584. Fue el primer libro impreso en América del Sur. Se trataba...