Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
Subtitle: The Journey of Friar Ilarione Da Bergamo, 1761-1768 (American Exploration and Travel Series)
Contributors: Robert Ryal Miller (Editor); William J. Orr (Translator)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780806132341
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Mexico; History; 18th And 19th Century Description And Travel; Mexico - History; Social life and customs; History - General History; Latin America - Mexico; History: World; d. 1778; da Bergamo, fra,; 18th century; Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Ilarione,
First sentence: Although the colonial era spanned nearly three centuries of Mexico's history, few eyewitness accounts remain that describe everyday life-where people lived, what they ate, how they amused themselves, what foibles or vices they indulged in, what they experienced strolling through the cities, towns, and countryside.
Description: "In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico to gather alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, he reached Mexico City in 1763. Ilarione's account reveals the squalor, crime, and other perils in the viceregal capital, and gives details about daily life: food, public hygiene, sexual morality, medical practices, and popular diversions. His observations about religious life are particularly valuable.

Based on a four year residence in the silver mining town of Real del Monte, fifty miles north of the capital, Ilarione describes mining and refining techniques and recounts a bitter and bloody miners' strike. Ilarione also traveled across bandit-infested wilderness to Guadalajara."--BOOK JACKET.