The Printer Diego Fernández de León and the Baroque Printing Press in Puebla de los Ángeles

Abstract

It is discouraging to state that little or nearly no progress has been made on the micro-geography of printing in Latin America. To fill partially this gap in, and as a result of extensive researches about the history of book and typography in Puebla de los Angeles ― the second city with printing in New Spain ―, this essay offers a biographical sketch of one of the most prominent printers of the city itself: Diego Fernández de León († 1710). Some references to his life and work have been previously provided, but Angelo-politanos archives and the material evidence of Fernandez de León´s books, allow us to give some unpublished trace of the Poblano printer, rightly considered the quintessence of Baroque typography.