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The article reviews the book "Paper Memory: A Sixteenth-Century Townsman Writes His World," by Matthew Lundin, volume 179 in the book series entitled "Harvard Historical Studies."

A review of the book "Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, Tudor Period, 1568-71," edited by Bernadette Cunningham is presented.

In this paper, I approach one of the first discursive constructions of the history of the New Spain, the poem Nuevo mundo y conquista, written by Francisco de Terrazas, a creole, in the late sixteenth century. For this, I outline the creation of a creole class, heir to the feeling of nobility of the first conquerors of America, and then I analyze the writting of Nuevo mundo y conquista in the context of these considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the influence of Virgil on Martin Luther, paying special attention to a short verse composition of Luther's in Latin, Adversus Armatum Virum Cochlaeum, based on the first lines of the Aeneid. The study suggests that an adequate understanding of Luther's relationship to and use of Virgil needs to take into full account the fact that the Reformer not only knew Virgil's works and quoted from him frequently, but also himself composed verses based on Virgil's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]