Sixteenth Century Books

Examples of early regional books. The bulk represents religious or classical authors and ancient histories, including a substantial number of facsimiles. These books are from the presses of Barcelona, Madrid, Zaragoza, Cuenca, Granada, Palma, Burgos, LÉrrida, Tarragona, etc., as well as from other European Countries.

Selections

	Flavius Arrianus, known as the new Xenofonte, describes, in this volume, the campaigns of Alexander the Great. Arrianus was clearly an admirer of Alexander and his military exploits. The volume is a fine sample of the ancient histories in the Bryant collection. Author: Arrianus, Flavius. Title: Arriano di Nicomedia, chiamato nvovo Xenofonte de i fatti del Magno Alessandro re di Macedonia. Complete Bibliographic Record
After Spain expelled the Moors from southern Spain in 1492, the energy of many Renaissance men was aimed toward new adventures and discoveries. Columbus discovered the New World in 1492 and, in 1519, Hernán Cortés conquered Mexico. Francisco Cervantes de Salazar, a spanish historian who had studied at Salamanca University and taught at Osuna, moved to Mexico in 1551 to teach Latin and Rhetoric at the new Mexico University in 1553. He became the official chronicler, and compiled the Crónica de la Neuva España. This is the most valuable of all the historical accounts of the Mexican conquest. Cervantes de Salazar knew Cortés personally, and made extensive use of his Relaciones. The Obras q Francisco Cervantes de Salazar ha hecho, glozado, y traducio (1546) consists of texts by Pedro Mex ía, Juan Luis Vives, and Fernán Pérez de Oliva, together with important dialogues on the early years of the university and on contemporary life and manners in the Mexican capital. Author: Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco, ca. 1514-ca. 1575. Title: Obras q Francisco Ceruantes de Salazar ha hecho, glosado, y traduzido. Complete Bibliographic Record
	Alonso de Orozco was an ascetic writer who became an Augustinian in 1522. He claimed that when he was living in Seville, in 1542, the Virgin Mary addressed him in a dream and said to him: "Write." From then on he never ceased to publish works of ascetism and mysticism which were eagerly read and quoted all over Spain. Declamtiones (Madrid, 1569) is a compilation of important sermons Author: Orozco, Alonzo de, 1500-1591. Title: Declamationes decem & septem, pro Aduentu domini nostri Jesu Christi, vsq; ad Septuagesimam. Complete Bibliographic Record