The study of library inventories of the Golden Age is of great interest to those who study the culture of this period, as it reveals much about their owners, and also about readings, plays, copies, etc. about which otherwise we would not know. One of the most important libraries of the seventeenth century was that of Don Lorenzo Ramirez de Prado, erudite and bibliophile, who collected in his Madrid home at least 8,951 volumes. Don Lorenzo was godson of the humanist Pedro de Valencia, chronicler of the Indies, he was Counselor of the Indies from 1626 until his death, as was his brother Alonso; another brother, Marcos, was Bishop of Michoacan. Perhaps the special relationship that Don Lorenzo had with America throughout his life was the reason that among the volumes of his library are the major works on the subject of the Americas, some of them published in the New World. In the present paper, after a thorough examination of the inventory, we strive to provide a list of records about the subject of America or printed in America that were in the library at the time it was inventoried, followed by analysis and conclusions.
Keywords:
Inventories, Libraries, America, Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado
Pena Sueiro, N. (2013). América en la librería de don Lorenzo Ramírez de Prado, Consejero de Indias. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (85). Retrieved from https://cuadernosjudaicos.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/30191
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