Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places, and Practices

by Irving A. Leonard

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This book opens a window on a forgotten and glorious time---the life of colonial Mexico. Here is the color of that era in a mosaic of life--a worldly ambitious archbishop, a beautiful nun-poetess, a Creole scholar torn between faith and scientific learning, poetasters, inquisitors--and in the background, the first glimmers of Mexican nationalism. Baroque in its intricate pattern of caste and custom, rich with silver pouring from its mines, the feudal...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0472061100

ISBN13:9780472061105

Release Date:November 1959

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

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Americas Ethnic Studies History Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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