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Valadés, Diego, b. 1533 · 1579 · Pervsiae [Perugia] : Apud Petrumiacobum Petrutium · 46 pictures

Rhetorica christiana is a 1579 rhetoric and preaching manual printed in Perugia by Diego Valadés, a Franciscan writing for missionaries working among the Indigenous peoples of New Spain. Its pictures are engraved plates mixing alphabet-like grids, allegorical trees and tiered cosmic diagrams, and gesture-and-scene sequences of figures, offering a designer dense, schematic layouts of emblematic symbols and expressive poses.

Preaching · Rhetoric · Indians of Mexico · Indians of North America

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