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  1. Pedro de Peralta (born c. 1584, Spain—died 1666, Madrid) was a Spanish colonial official who established Santa Fe as the capital of New Mexico. Peralta arrived in Mexico City during the winter of 1608–09 following his university studies in Spain.

  2. Pedro de Peralta (c. 1584 – 1666) was Governor of New Mexico between 1610 and 1613 at a time when it was a province of New Spain. He formally founded the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610. In August 1613 he was arrested and jailed for almost a year by the Franciscan friar Isidro Ordóñez.

  3. Don Pedro de Peralta established himself as the Spanish colonial governor of Santa Fe in 1610. Peralta arrived in Mexico City during the winter of 1608–1609 following his university studies in Spain.

  4. PEDRO DE PERALTA: PERUVIAN POLYGRAPH 691 The Peruvian polygraph was born in Lima on November 26, 1664 and died there on April 30, 1743. While physically rooted all his life in his natal city, in the world of bookks and the intellect he traveled far and adventured much. This parochial existence in a neo-medieval community far removed from Europe ...

  5. Peralta y Barnuevo, Pedro de. Lima (Perú), 26.XI.1664 – 30.IV.1743. Abogado, literato, matemático, historiador, astrónomo, cosmógrafo mayor del Reino del Perú, rector de la Universidad de San Marcos. Fueron sus padres el contador de la Audiencia de Lima Francisco de Peralta Barnuevo, natural de Guadalajara, y Magdalena Egipciaca de la ...

  6. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo y Rocha (b. 26 November 1664; d. 30 April 1743), Peruvian polymath. Peralta was born in Lima and educated at the University of San Marcos. An acountant, lawyer, mathematician, and cosmographer who taught mathematics at San Marcos and served as its rector, he was considered by contemporaries to be a "monster of ...

  7. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo’s Lima fundada; o, conquista del Perú (1732; “Lima Founded; or, Conquest of Peru”) illustrates the promise and the pitfalls of the genre. While Peralta’s occasional poetry often confirms the staying power of Góngora, Lima fundada blends Alonso de Ercilla’s poetics with French Neoclassical prescriptions for…