Attributed to Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo by Vargas Ugarte and by Jerry M. Wiliams in his Censorship and art in pre-enlightenment Lima, Potomac, MD. , 1994, where Peralta Barnuevo's Dialogo de los muertos is printed in full and translated into English.

Possible dates of publication supplied by Jerry M. Williams in the Catalogue of works by the author in Censorship and art in pre-enlightenment Lima.

Place of publication supplied by Jerry M. Williams in the Catalogue of works by the author in Censorship and art in pre-enlightenment Lima.

The characters in the Peralta Barnuevo's Dialogo are in the underworld where they discuss the state of the world, with musings about the triumphs of French and German hegemony in Spanish America, how the greatness of the Spanish monarchy has been reduced to ruin, and how its colonies have been the target of political agression by foreign empires. Cf. Williams.

The work was published anonymously by Peralta Barnuevo's own press and circulated clandestinely because of its controversial nature. Cf. Williams.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-G² (-G2)

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; initial.

Vargas Ugarte, R. Imp. peruanos, 2877.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in full vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.