Cartas sobre Roma
Subtitle: visitada en la primavera de 1867
By: Agustín Rivera ; edición y prólogo, Sergio López Mena
Contributors: López Mena, Sergio, editor
Edition: Primera edición en esta colección, 10 de diciembre de 2014.
Series: Ida y regreso al siglo xix / Coordinación de Humanidades, Programa Editorial; Al siglo XIX, ida y regreso
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Published: 2015
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9786070263453
Subjects: Description and travel; Philosophers; Correspondence; Travel
Description: Letters by 19th-century priest, historian and writer, to fellow priest, Hilarión Romero Gil, narrating his experiences in visit to Holy City between February and May 1867.  Introduction by Sergio López Mena fleshes out details of Rivera's life and work and context of Mexico and Europe at time letters were written.  Edition limited to 500 copies.
Notes: Letters meant to be published as a complement to the author's Compendio de historia romana, 1871. The letters were reedited in 1876: Lagos : Imprenta de Francisco Rodríguez. Segunda edición, and in 1878.

Includes bibliographical references and index.