Spanish colonial literature in South America

I. Francisco de Xerés. II. Pedro Sancho. III. Tomás de San Martín; Benito Peñalosa Mondragón. IV. Pedro Pizarro; Cristóbal de Molina. V. Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán; Diego Fernánd...

I. José de Acosta. II. Garcilaso de la Vega. III. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa; Polo de Ondegardo. IV. Cristóbal de Molina; Cabello de Balboa. V. Pedro de Valdivia. VI. Alonso de G...

I. Alonso González de Nájera. II. Francisco Núñez de Pineda Bascuñán. III. Caro de Torres. IV. Melchor Xufré del Águila. V. Alonso de Ovalle. VI. Miguel de Aguirre. VII. Francis...

I. Juan Bautista Aguilar. II. Francisco Vásquez; Toribio de Ortiguera. III. Cristóbal de Acuña. IV. Diego de Torres Bollo. V. Antonio de la Calancha. VI. Bernabé Cobo. VII. Alon...

I. Juan de Barrenechea y Albis; Luis de Oviedo y Herrera; Juan del Valle y Caviedes. II. Ignacio de Arbieto; Jacinto Barrasa; José de Buendía. III. Jerónimo de Quiroga; Anello O...

I. Jorge Juan y Santacilla and Antonio de Ulloa. II. Alonso de Zamora; José de Oviedo y Baños. III. Joseph Luis Cisneros and Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara. IV. Pedro Jo...

I. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; Ulrich Schmidel. II. Early Sources of Information about Paraguay; Nicolás de Techo. III. Pedro Lozano. IV. José Guevara. V. Dobrizhoffer; Pauke; F...

I. Melchor Calderón; Francisco Falcón; Francisco Carrasco del Saz. II. Nicolás Polanco de Santillana; Juan Matienzo; Juan de Solórzano Pereira; Gaspar de Escalona y Agüero. III....

I. José Eusebio Llano y Zapata. II. Miguel de Olivares; Pedro de Córdoba y Figueroa. III. José Pérez García; Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche. IV. Geographical Description; Molina a...

I. The intellectual movement after the expulsion of the Jesuits. II. Political Reformers. III. Poets. IV. Literary periodicals: _Mercurio Peruano_, _Gaceta de Lima_. V. Contribu...

The literary activity of the Spanish Colonies in South America extended over a period of somewhat more than two hundred and fifty years, in which Spain organized and carried on...

The letters and reports of the adventurers, the discoverers, and the early settlers, during the period of exploration and conquest, constitute a noteworthy introduction to the l...

I. _Francisco de Xerés._ II. _Pedro Sancho._ III. _Tomás de San Martín_; _Benito Peñalosa Mondragón_. IV. _Pedro Pizarro_; _Cristóbal de Molina_. V. _Alonso Enríquez de Guzmán_;...

I. _José de Acosta._ II. _Garcilaso de la Vega._ III. _Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa; Polo de Ondegardo._ IV. _Cristóbal de Molina; Cabello de Balboa._ V. _Pedro de Valdivia._ VI. _...

In _La Araucana_ by Ercilla the theme is no longer the ancient Peruvian state, described by Cieza de León, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Sarmiento, with its autocratic rulers and su...

The prominent Spaniards are sketched less clearly than the Indians, appealing apparently less powerfully to the poet’s imagination. Yet the sketch of García de Mendoza, the yout...

The model set by Ercilla in _La Araucana_ was followed by later writers. Pedro de Oña acknowledged that he was an imitator of Ercilla, and in _Arauco domado_ he wrote of essenti...

Besides Ercilla and his imitators, already mentioned, a number of other writers in verse appeared among the early chroniclers of South American affairs. The most noteworthy of t...

Centenera’s “historical poem” called _La Argentina_ deals with the events relating to Spanish colonization in the south-eastern part of the continent. The first edition was publ...

I. _Alonso González de Nájera._ II. _Francisco Núñez de Pineda Bascuñán._ III. _Caro de Torres._ IV. _Melchor Xufré del Águila._ V. _Alonso de Ovalle._ VI. _Miguel de Aguirre._...

I. _Juan Bautista Aguilar._ II. _Francisco Vásquez and Toribio de Ortiguera._ III. _Cristóbal de Acuña._ IV. _Diego de Torres Bollo._ V. _Antonio de la Calancha._ VI. _Bernabé C...

I. _Juan de Barrenechea y Albis; Luis de Oviedo y Hererra; Juan del Valle y Caviedes._ II. _Ignacio de Arbieto; Jacinto Barrasa; José de Buendía._ III. _Jerónimo de Quiroga; Ane...

I. _Jorge Juan y Santacilla and Antonio de Ulloa._ II. _Alonso de Zamora and José de Oviedo y Baños._ III. _Joseph Luis Cisneros and Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara._ IV....

I. _Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; Ulrich Schmidel._ II. _Early sources of information about Paraguay; Nicolás de Techo._ III. _Pedro Lozano._ IV. _José Guevara._ V. _Dobrizhoffer;...

The mediæval tradition that the Church was the supreme patron of learning was generally recognized in Latin America throughout the greater part of the colonial period. Men of sc...

I. _Melchor Calderón, Francisco Falcón and Francisco Carrasco de Saz._ II. _Nicolás Polanco de Santillana, Juan Matienzo, Juan de Solórzano Pereira, and Gaspar de Escalona y Agü...

I. _José Eusebio Llano y Zapata._ II. _Miguel de Olivares and Pedro de Córdoba y Figueroa._ III. _José Pérez García and Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche._ IV. _Geographical descript...

I. _The intellectual movement after the expulsion of the Jesuits._ II. _Political reformers._ III. _Poets._ IV. _Literary periodicals: Mercurio Peruano; Gaceta de Lima._ V. _Con...

Castro Tito Cusi Yupangui (Diego de). _Relación de la conquista del Perú y hechos del Inca Manco II._ Printed in _Colección de libros y documentos referentes a la historia del P...

—— _Historia general y natural de las Indias._ Edited with introduction, notes, and a life of the author by J. Amador de los Ríos and published by the Real Academia de la Histor...

Barros Arana in his _Historia de Chile_, vol. II, 267, n., regarded it of so little value that even if it had been completed and corrected it would have been hardly worth printi...