Arte y hagiografía, siglos XVI-XX

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This anthology of foundational sixteenth-century Spanish-language texts presents the European side of the discovery and colonization of the New World. Otto Olivera has chosen representative selections from the works of eighteen authors, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Bartolomé de Las Casas, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Hernán Cortés, and Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Their writings present an impressive panorama of the first years of a real New World that could compete with any portrayed in European novels of chivalry or travel. To put these texts in historical context, Olivera has written...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.