24 avril 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Woodrow Borah, « Hipólito Villarroel: some unanswered questions », Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos, ID : 10.4000/books.cemca.2118
The aura of mystery surrounding the Enfermedades politicas que padece la capital de esta Nueva España and its author has been dispelled only in part by the research of half a century. Composed two hundred years ago, the work is an acid description of Mexico in the closing years of the Bourbon administration, brilliantly written and displaying an intimate knowledge of Church, state, and people. For a century it was known, except to readers of the manuscript copies, only in the less than faithf...