Abbot Pluche was a French ecclesiastic of the eighteenth century, especially known for his treatise on natural history El espectáculo de la naturaleza, to which Cardenas refers twice. This voluminous treatise, originally edited in eight volumes of nine volumes, was thought as an informative work rather than as a scientific...
A new reading of colonial epic poetry is proposed by Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo with his book Lima fundada o conquista del Perú. The symbols in the poems of the Arauco, Armas Antárticas and in the sacred or hagiographic epic sacra of La Cristiada of Diego de Hojeda and the...