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| Title | Rhetorica Christiana
(published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Limp vellum binding attached to textblock by single fold sewn in endpapers |
| Brief description | Book, Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi et orandi usum accommodata..., by Diego Valades, Perugia: Petrus Jacobus Petrutius, 1579. |
| Physical description | Printed book illustrated with engravings. |
| Dimensions | - Binding height: 178mm
(closed)
(Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
- Width: 125mm
(closed)
(Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
- Depth: 30mm
(closed)
(Note: Measured in Book Conservation measuring box)
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| Gallery label | - Medieval and Renaissance Galleries, V&A:<br>
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THE MEXICAN WORLD, IN ‘RHETORICA CHRISTIANA’<br>
1579<br>
Diego Valadés (1533–after 1582)<br>
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Rhetorica Christiana was the first book by a Mexican-born author to be published in Europe. Diego Valadés, a Franciscan friar, intended it as a guide for missionaries to Mexico. Half Talaxcaltec, half Spanish, he shared his knowledge of Mexica (Aztec) culture. This section describes accounts of Aztec human sacrifices, one of which is depicted at the centre of the engraving. <br>
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Italy, Perugia<br>
Ink on paper; engravings by Diego Valadés<br>
Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi et orandi usum accommodate; 1579<br>
Published by Pietro Giacomo Petrucci<br>
Museum no. 24-1891
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| Object history | Cancelled ownership inscription on the first flyleaf. Removed area where a library stamp possibly was (traces on the first page of the dedication). Accessioned by the Museum on 17 January 1891. |
| Bibliographic references | - De la Maza, F., Fray Diego Valadés: escritor y grabador franciscano del siglo XVI, Mexico City: UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 1945.
- Palomera, E.J., Fray Diego Valadés, OFM, evangelizador humanista de la Nueva España: el hombre, su época y su obra, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1988.
- Chaparro-Gómez, C., 'Emblemática y memoria, política e historia en la Rhetorica christiana de Diego de Valadés', in Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 23, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp.173-202.
- Bolzoni, L., 'Mexican Nature in Diego Valadés' Rhetorica christiana (1579)', in Studies in the History of Art, Vol. 69, Symposium Papers XLVI: The Art of Natural History: Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850, 2008, pp. 126-141.
- Rubial García, A., 'Religiosos viajeros en el mundo hispánico en la época de los Austrias (el caso de Nueva España)', in Historia Mexicana, Vol. 61, No. 3 (243), Novohispanos en la Monarquía, Jan-March 2012, pp. 813-48.
- Chapparo Gómez, C., Fray Diego Valadés, evangelizador franciscano en Nueva España, Col. Extremeños en Iberoamérica, 4, Badajoz: Junta de Extremadura-Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica, 2015.
- Cañizares-Esguerra, J., 'Mestizo Memory Palaces', in New World Objects of Knowledge: A Cabinet of Curiosities, ed. by M. Thurner and J. Pimentel, University of London Press, 2021, pp. 105-13.
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| Other numbers | - 87.E.5 - NAL Pressmark
- 38041800982712 - NAL barcode
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