Barry D. Sell Louise M. Burkhart Elizabeth R. Wright
Don Bartolome de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain s ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were routinely excluded from the priesthood. In 1640 and 1641 he translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl, yet this prodigious accomplishment remained virtually unknown for centuries.
"Nahuatl Theater, Volume 3" presents for the first time in English the complete dramatic works of Alva, the only known plays from Spain s Golden Age adapted into the lively world of Nahuatl-language theater. Alva s translations The Great Theater of the World, The...
Don Bartolome de Alva was a mestizo who rose within New Spain s ecclesiastical hierarchy when people of indigenous heritage were routinely excluded...
The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry, often modeled on Vergil and other Roman poets, in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Among the poems included is the two-book Austrias Carmen by the remarkable Juan Latino, a black African former slave who became a professor of Latin in...
The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteent...
