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

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 lifea worldly ambitious archbishop, a beautiful nun-poetess, a Creole scholar torn between faith and scientific learning, poetasters, inquisitorsand 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 society of Old Mexico lives in this account of a vanished time.