Baroque Times in Old Mexico Author:Irving A. Leonard This book opens a window on a forgotten and glorious time---the life of colonial Mexico. Here is the color of that era in a mosaic of life---a worldly ambitious archbishop, a beautiful nun-poetess, a Creole scholar torn between faith and scientific learning, poetasters, inquisitors---and in the background, the first glimmers of Mexican National... more »ism. This book was awarded the Herbert Eugene Bolton Prize by the Conference on Latin American History of the American Historical Association.« less