Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi, et orandi vsum accommodata, : utriusq[ue] facultatis exemplis suo loco insertis; quae quidem, ex Indorum maximè deprompta sunt historiis. Vnde praeter doctrinam, sum[m]a quoque delectatio comparabitur.

Valadés, Diego, 1533- · 1579 · Pervsiae [Perugia] : Apud Petrumiacobum Petrutium · 11 pictures

A 1579 rhetoric manual by Franciscan friar Diego Valadés, printed in Perugia for preachers in New Spain, drawing its examples from Indigenous Mexican history. The pictures are engraved plates: a dense register of small figures under a sky scene, a strapwork frame enclosing paired scholars at desks, and grids of letterforms and emblems set in arched frames with twisted-rope borders, which a designer could borrow for ornamental panels, grid layouts, or mnemonic symbol systems.

Franciscans · Preaching · Rhetoric · Indians of Mexico · Indians of North America · Imprint 1579

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