Neal A. Messer has published and lectured on colonial Latin American literature and history, and is currently preparing an edition of Andrés de León’s Historia del huérfano (1621). He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from University of Kentucky.Jerry M. Williams, retired chairperson of the Department of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, is the author of numerous books and essays on colonial historiography of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University.

• List of Illustrations – Foreword – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: A Lost Work Revived – A Puzzle Missing Pieces – Complexity by Design – Hispano-Latin Poetry: A Direct Link to Rome – Dual Language Authority – An Extension of Góngora – Education in a Poem – A Tribute to the City of Kings – Valdés and His Critics: A Poem Misunderstood – Poema heroyco’s Front Matter: Honoring a Departed Author – Paragraph Synopses – Notes – Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación y grandezas de la muy noble y leal ciudad de Lima – Front Matter – Text – Notes and Latin Translations – Index of Latin Authors Quoted in Valdés’ Commentary – Bibliography.

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Neal A. Messer has published and lectured on colonial Latin American literature and history, and is currently preparing an edition of Andrés de León’s Historia del huérfano (1621). He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from University of Kentucky.Jerry M. Williams, retired chairperson of the Department of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, is the author of numerous books and essays on colonial historiography of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University.

• List of Illustrations – Foreword – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: A Lost Work Revived – A Puzzle Missing Pieces – Complexity by Design – Hispano-Latin Poetry: A Direct Link to Rome – Dual Language Authority – An Extension of Góngora – Education in a Poem – A Tribute to the City of Kings – Valdés and His Critics: A Poem Misunderstood – Poema heroyco’s Front Matter: Honoring a Departed Author – Paragraph Synopses – Notes – Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación y grandezas de la muy noble y leal ciudad de Lima – Front Matter – Text – Notes and Latin Translations – Index of Latin Authors Quoted in Valdés’ Commentary – Bibliography.

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Neal A. Messer has published and lectured on colonial Latin American literature and history, and is currently preparing an edition of Andrés de León’s Historia del huérfano (1621). He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic studies from University of Kentucky.Jerry M. Williams, retired chairperson of the Department of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, is the author of numerous books and essays on colonial historiography of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University.

• List of Illustrations – Foreword – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction: A Lost Work Revived – A Puzzle Missing Pieces – Complexity by Design – Hispano-Latin Poetry: A Direct Link to Rome – Dual Language Authority – An Extension of Góngora – Education in a Poem – A Tribute to the City of Kings – Valdés and His Critics: A Poem Misunderstood – Poema heroyco’s Front Matter: Honoring a Departed Author – Paragraph Synopses – Notes – Poema heroyco hispano-latino panegyrico de la fundación y grandezas de la muy noble y leal ciudad de Lima – Front Matter – Text – Notes and Latin Translations – Index of Latin Authors Quoted in Valdés’ Commentary – Bibliography.

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