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De rebus Vaccae Castri Liber primus

Authors: Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella

Joannis Christophori Calveti Stellae De rebus Vaccae Castri. Liber primus

Bibliographic description

De rebus Vaccae Castri (Praise of Vaca de Castro) is a Latin epic poem of the late sixteenth century,  preserved as a manuscript, and, preliminary version of the poem Vaccaeis by the same author, the renowned humanist Juan Cristóbal Calvete de Estrella who was the Latin teacher of Felipe II and author of the chronicle De rebus Indicis.

For more information on this work and its relation to Vaccaeis and De rebus Indicis, see the recent study by Manuel A. Díaz Gito.