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'O Uraguai': the epic of the conquest of the South

Description:
The opening of Basílio da Gama's ‘Uraguai’ (1769) recalls the ‘Iliad'. In fact Basílio da Gama's poem is modelled after the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’. …
Year:
1993
Contributor:
Schüler, Donaldo (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Eurocentrism
Indians of South America
Gama, José Basilio da > 1740-1795
Homer
Collection:
Journals@BDR
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
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[De thesauris, Doce dudas, Casas' last memorial to the Consejo de Indias, and Selections of Casas' last will and testament]

Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloguer.
  • Three manuscript copies, according to Wagner, were made either by or for fray Alonso de la Veracruz, Casas' colleague, …
Year:
1566
Contributor:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Alonso de la Vera Cruz, approximately 1507-1584
León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Spain
Subject:
s-pe---
Casas, Bartolomé de las > 1484-1566 > Wills
Consejo de Indias (Spain)
Indians, Treatment of > Latin America
Indians of South America > Peru
Indians of South America > Peru > Antiquities
Manuscripts > Spanish
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration
Imprint 1566.
Spain > Valladolid
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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[Doctrina cristiana en lengua mexicana.]

Description:
  • Fragmentary text, the first line on fol. xij reads: ca chipahuac in cenca tlanextia.
  • Author attribution, title, and imprint from Icazbalceta, who attributes it to …
Year:
1547
Contributor:
Gante, Pedro de, 1486-1572
León, Nicolás, 1859-1929
Subject:
Catholic Church > Missions > Mexico
Catholic Church > Doctrines
Conversion > Christianitiy
Indians of South America > Missions
Indian linguistics > Nahuatl language
CSAIP
Imprint 1547.
Mexico > Mexico City
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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A [blank] V.S. declara y manda que en los cacicasgos de pachacas y ayllos no ha de auer subcession, ni los hijos y hermanos y deudos delos que lo vsan los han de heredar, porque estos officios se han de nombrar en hijos de caciques, o en otros suficientes, y se guardara lo de mas que aqui se manda

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Dated and signed at end of text: Fecho en los Reyes a treinta dias del mes de dizie[m]bre de mil y seiscientos y …
Year:
1603
Contributor:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Subject:
s------ > s-pe---
CSAIP
Indians of South America > Legal status, laws, etc > Andes Region
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Government relations
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Kings and rulers
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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A [blank] V.S. manda que los indios que tuuieren prouisiones y decretos en su fauor, no pidan confirmaciones por no ser necessario, ni ta[m]poco de los mandamientos de los corregidores sus antecessores, porque aunque las pidan no han de ser oydos, ni admitidos sus pedimentos

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Dated and signed at end of text: Fecha en los Reyes a treinta dias del mes de diziembre de mil y seiscientos y …
Year:
1603
Contributor:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Subject:
CSAIP
Indians of South America > Legal status, laws, etc > Andes Region
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Government relations
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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A V.S. Reserua de tributo, mitas, y seruicios personales a los hijos maiores de los caciques principales: y a los de mas hijos legitimos que tuuiere[n] de solo mitas y seruicios, y no de tributo, conforme a la ordenanca del señor visorey don Francisco de Toledo, y que los hijos de las segundas personas y de los caciques de Guarangas y Piscapachacas y pachacas [sic] ni otros algunos, no sean reseruados de las dichas mitas y seruicios, y lo de mas aqui contenido

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Signed and dated at end: Fecha en los Reyes a tres dias del mes de diziembre de mil y seiscientos y tres años. …
Year:
1603
Contributor:
Peru (Viceroyalty)
Subject:
s-pe---
CSAIP
Indians of South America > Taxation > Law and legislation > Andes Region
Indians, Treatment of > Legal status, laws, etc > Andes Region
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Labor service > Law and legislation
Peru > Lima
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Addicion á la memoria fecha 14 del prõximo pasado agosto, con el mismo objeto de establecer paz con los indios limítrofes à esta provincia

Description:
  • Caption title.
  • Printer's name from colophon.
  • Dated and signed at end: Buenos Aires octubre 19 de 1822. A. M.
Year:
1822
Contributor:
A. M.
Subject:
s-ag---
CSAIP
Indians of South America > Argentina
Argentina > Politics and government > 1817-1860
Imprint 1822.
Argentina > Buenos Aires
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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The Amazon and Madeira rivers: sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer

Description:
  • by Franz Keller, engineer.
Year:
1875
Contributor:
Keller, Franz, 1835-1890 (creator)
Genre:
books
Subject:
Indians of South America > Brazil
Mojo Indians
Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia)
Amazon River
Brazil > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Latin American Travelogues
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America, oder wie mans zu teutsch nennet die Neuwe Welt, oder West Jndia

Description:
  • Von Herrn Iosepho de Acosta ; in sieben Büchern, eins Theils in lateinischer, vnd eins Theils in hispanischer Sprach, beschrieben. ..
  • Books 1-2 translation of: …
Year:
1605
Contributor:
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600
Subject:
n------ > s------ > cl-----
Indians of Mexico
Indians of South America > Peru
Natural history > Latin America
America > Early accounts to 1600
America > Discovery and exploration
Latin America
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Oberursel
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae nona & postrema pars: Qua de ratione elementorum: De novi orbis natura: de huius incolarum superstitiosis cultibus: deq[ue] forma politicae ac Republ. ipsorum copiosè pertractatur: catalogo regum Mexicanorum omnium, à primo usq[ue] ad vltimum Motec̦umam II. addito: cui etiam ritus eorum coronationis, ac sepulturae annectitur, cum enumeratione bellorum, quae mutuò Indi gesserunt. His accessit designatio illius navigationis, quam 5. naues Hollandicae anno 1598. per Fretum Magellanum in Moluccanas insulas tentarunt: quomodo nimirum oborta tempestate capitaneus Sebalt de Weert à caeteris nauibus dispulsus, postquam plurimis mensibus in freto infinitis aerumnis miserè iactatus fuisset, tandem infectare post biennium An[no] 1600. domum reuersus sit. Addita est tertio nauigatio recens, quam 4. nauium praefectus Olevier à Noort proximè suscepit: qui Freto Magellanico classe transmisso, triennij spatio vniuersum terrae orbem seu globum mira navigationis forte obiuit: annexis illis, quae in itinere isto singularia ac memorabiliora notata sunt

Description:
  • Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & insuper elegantissimis figuris aeneis coornata editaq[ue] sumptibus Theodori de Bry P.M. vidua & binorum filiorum.
  • Constitutes the ninth part, …
Year:
1602
Contributor:
Theodor de Bry (Firm)
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611
Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-
Heyns, Zacharias, 1566-1638
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600
Potgieter, Barent Jansz, 1574-
Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 1559-1627
Subject:
n------ > s------
Weert, Sebald de
Indians of Mexico
Indians of South America > Peru
Natural history > Latin America
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
Maluku (Indonesia) > Description and travel
Imprint 1602.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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