Title:

La Silva de varia lección

Short title

La Silva de varia lección

Title variations

Title in English

Silva of various lessons

Section

“De que linage y de que tierra fue Mahoma, y en que tiempo començò su malvada secta”; “En el qual en suma se pone el principio y origen del senorio del gran Turco, y quantos señores y principes ha avido en él”

Language

Castilian

Creation date

1540

Genre

Didactic work

Content

Content table

Formal Expression

Prose

Qur'an quotations

Yes

Original

No

Source

Use (macro-category)

Polemical

Use (micro-category)

Polemics against Islam

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/2HXSBHWV

Descriptive card

Collection of prose on various subjects (history, customs, superstitions, mythology, etc.) written in 1540 by Pedro Mexía and repeatedly printed and translated (see Italian translation by Mabrino Roseo). It contains interesting chapters about Muhammad and Islam, with qur'anic references.

Entry author

Irene Reginato