Libraries
Indiana
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Catalog dedicated to the study of texts and major historical, political and cultural events from the Conquest (16th century) to the Baroque (18th century). Philology, History, Linguistics, Science, History of Art, Musicology, Theology among other disciplines are found to foster studies appropriate to the complex multicultural character of the colonial period
Catalog dedicated to the study of texts and major historical, political and cultural events from the Conquest (16th century) to the Baroque (18th century). Philology, History, Linguistics, Science, History of Art, Musicology, Theology among other disciplines are found to foster studies appropriate to the complex multicultural character of the colonial period.
Letters from New Spain is a digital collection dedicated to disseminating texts related to Mexico's viceregal period and culture, developed with the support of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), due to the constant work of its principal researcher Gisela von Wobeser. She has envisioned this collection as an effective way to reach an international audience for New Spain studies. This collection houses editions of texts from the period, as well as studies from diverse disciplines that foster a better understanding of one of the most important and influential viceroyalties of Latin America.
Letters from the Kingdom of Chile is a collection of the Editorial Universitaria and the Instituto de Literatura de la Universidad de los Andes (Chile), in charge of our colleague Miguel Donoso. It is dedicated to the edition and publication of works related to the Chilean colonial period. The Indian Studies Project hosts the digital version of the volumes, whose copyrights are reserved for the publisher.
Inspired by the title of Diego Dávalos Figueroa's work, Nueva Miscelánea Austral is a selection of colonial texts (either by origin or subject matter) curated by Estudios Indianos (EI). Various private and public institutions with the support of servers such as Google have digitized huge volumes from past centuries. Colonial material is no exception, so EI provides users with a digital bookshelf where these digitized books are displayed with appropriate descriptions for their optimal use.
Specialized Libraries
This collection brings together digitized volumes of the first books printed in the Viceroyalty of Peru (1584-1619), first in the workshops of the Italian Antonio Ricardo and then in those of the Spaniard Francisco del Canto. Books and printing played a crucial role in the dissemination of the ideas of European Modernity, as well as in the dissemination of works written from and for the American territory.
This collection gathers the main hagiographies, accounts of festivities, and epic literature dedicated to the Patron Saint of America and the Philippines. This set of texts constitutes one of the first and, perhaps, most significant global phenomena of the Hispanic World: the sacred life of Rosa de Santa María was written in the most important languages of the modern world and motivated an unprecedented sacred and cultural phenomenon.
This collection includes the works and a part of the library, books inventoried after his death in 1616, of the Inca Garcilaso. It is a fascinating testimony of a mestizo humanist who chronicled the discovery of two worlds: the Europeans who believed they had found the lost Eden and the Americans who devoured that overseas culture that today inhabits, transformed and mestizo, its fantastic geography.
Amarilis is the author of the "Epístola de Amarilis a Belardo", which was published in "La Filomena y otras diversas rimas" by Lope de Vega (Madrid, 1621). This collection brings together the digitalizations of the books, printed or handwritten, which, according to the meticulous study of Dr. Martina Vinatea, formed part of the library of the still anonymous American writer.
Collection of texts and documents that have been produced from science to explain transcendental phenomena and changes in the history of mankind, for example, the discovery of America. This section opens with a bibliographical collection of the main sources cited by Santiago de Cárdenas, a distinguished 18th century Lima native who was almost a century ahead of the scientific advances in aviation.
