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(PERU.) Oviedo y Herrara, Luis Antonio. Vida de Sta. Rosa de Santa Maria, Natural de Lima, y Patrona del Peru. Poema Heroyco.

(PERU.) Oviedo y Herrara, Luis Antonio. Vida de Sta. Rosa de Santa Maria, Natural de Lima, y Patrona del Peru. Poema Heroyco. Portrait plate. 8vo, later full morocco gilt, front cover detached; gilt edges. Madrid, 1711

  • Notes: first edition of an epic poem on the life of Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617), patron saint of Peru and the first American to be canonized. "This poem is described [in Lazcano's 1760 biography of the author] as equalling in beauty but surpassing in its theme the works of Homer and Virgil"--Sabin 58003. Palau 207753.
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