Irving A. Leonard

Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut -1962^[1]) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are Books of the Brave (1949) and Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices (1959). Books of the Brave, a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992.^[2]He had many papers published in the American Historical Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review, such as A Frontier Library, 1799 (Feb., 1943, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 21-51).

References

^ Hispanic American Historical Review
^ Leonard, Irving Albert (1992). Books of the brave: being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520079908. http://books.google.com/books?id=VYVzjP42jmEC. Retrieved 25 January 2011.

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Name	Leonard, Irving
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Date of birth	December 1, 1896
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Date of death	1962
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