Diario de Mariana

Copy of reports rendered by Bishop Tamarón of Durango in compliance with royal decrees regarding his inspection of his see, which comprised the present territory of Durango, Chihuahua, parts of other Mexican states, and New Mexico. Consists of an introduction and three parts. Printed as Demostración del vastísimo obispado de la Nueva Vizcaya-1765 (ed. by Vito Alessio Robles, Mexico, 1937) Includes a transcript of nearly all of Part I and the itineraries of Part II in the handwriting of Alphonse Pinart (M-M 232 A).

"Durante mucho tiempo el Estado tarasco ha sido presentado como un ente aislado en Mesoamérica. La presente obra investiga los contactos exteriores del Irechecua Tzintzuntzani y muestra que no sólo en el ámbito cultural, sino también en el político y económico, participó en el multicéntrico sistema mundo mesoamericano del Posclásico. Aparte del análisis de los contactos con grupos y regiones dentro de Mesoamérica, se incluye el estudio de las relaciones con Aridoamérica y se evalúa la posibilidad de contactos con Centroamérica y Suramérica. Se explora además la fragmentación...

"Excellent study of the Dominican Order in the 16th century. Avoids a chronological account giving the reader instead a methodical analysis of the institutional, social, and economic organization of the order. To the prototypes of the urban and the rural convents, Pita Moreda adds a balanced assessment of the missionary activities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...