Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, Thomas More narrates an episode from his own life in which he met and conversed with Raphael Hythloday, a Portuguese sailor who had traveled on four of Amerigo Vespucio’s voyages across the Atlantic and on the fourth one was left [...]

In these three extracts from the first chapter of his book Última Tule, Alfonso Reyes considers the history of conquest and how it has fostered mythic notions of the Americas. In the text “Colón y Américo Vespucio,” he corrects the historical [...]