The Instituto Cervantes in Madrid will host a meeting on 4 February at 7:00 p.m., in its Auditorium, about the recent publication in Lima by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru of a new, duly annotated transcription of the History of the New World (1653) of the Jesuit Bernabé Cobo (Jaén, 1580-Lima, 1657) is an editorial event for the Pan-Hispanic world.
Face-to-face and online activity. Free entry until capacity is full, with reservation of preferred seat on Eventbrite.
Cobo spent much of his life in the Peruvian Viceroyalty, although he was also a little more than a decade in Mexico, and is considered the main encyclopedic scholar of botany and zoology of the Andean country, as well as substantive aspects of its culture and history.
The work, published on the occasion of the last X International Congress of the Spanish Language which took place in Arequipa, is now presented in Madrid.
The event was attended by the editor and author of the introductory study, Fermín del Pino Díaz, PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; the Peruvian historian Víctor Peralta Ruiz; also a researcher at the CSIC and author of numerous publications on the history of his country, and Francisco Castilla Urbano, professor of philosophy and history at the University of Alcalá de Henares and author of many books on American subjects. The event is coordinated by Alonso Ruiz Rosas, cultural attaché of the Peruvian Embassy in Spain.
