Aztec Latin

Aztec Latin
Author: Andrew Laird
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2024-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 019758635X

Soon after the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521, missionaries began teaching Latin to native youths in Mexico. This initiative was intended to train indigenous students for positions of leadership, but it led some of them to produce significant writings of their own in Latin, and to translate a wide range of literature, including Aesop's fables, into their native language. Aztec Latin reveals the full extent to which the first Mexican authors mastered and made use of European learning and provides a timely reassessment of what those indigenous authors really achieved.

Searching for the Secrets of Nature

Searching for the Secrets of Nature
Author: Simon Varey
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780804739641

This collection of essays by historians, historians of science and medicine, and literary and textual scholars from several countries analyzes the achievements of Dr. Francisco Hernández (1515-87), author of the monumental The Natural History of New Spain, in the history of medicine and science in Europe and the Americas.

The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature

The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature
Author: Philip Ward
Publisher: Oxford, [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 648
Release: 1978
Genre: Authors, Latin American
ISBN:

Provides, in a single alphabetical sequence, a one-volume reference manual of information likely to be of value to readers of literature in the Spanish language.

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)

Iberian Books Volumes II & III / Libros Ibéricos Volúmenes II y III (2 vols)
Author: Alexander Samuel Wilkinson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 2646
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004301135

Iberian Books II & III presents an indispensable foundational listing of everything known to have been published in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or of items printed in Spanish or Portuguese elsewhere, during the first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on library catalogues, specialist bibliographies and studies, as well as auction catalogue records, Iberian Books lists 45,000 items, and the locations of some 215,000 copies surviving in 1,800 collections worldwide. These volumes offer a powerful research tool which will appeal to researchers, librarians and to the book selling and collecting communities. They will prove invaluable to anyone with a research interest in the literature, history and culture of the Iberian Peninsula in the early modern age. This set supplements Iberian Books, which logs the Iberian print production up to 1601. Los dos volúmenes de Iberian Books II & III ofrecen un registro pionero de todos los impresos publicados en España, Portugal y el Nuevo Mundo, o en español o portugués en otros lugares, entre 1601 y 1650. A partir del trabajo realizado en bibliotecas, la revisión de bibliografías especializadas y de catálogos de casas de subastas, Iberian Books recoge 45.000 impresos conservados en 215.000 ejemplares preservados en 1.800 colecciones de todo el mundo. Estos volúmenes ofrecen una herramienta de investigación de gran utilidad para investigadores, bibliotecarios, libreros y coleccionistas. Los dos volúmenes resultarán de enorme valor a todo aquel investigador interesado en la literatura, la historia y la cultura de la Península Ibérica de la Edad Moderna.

Bernard Quaritch

Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1871
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN: