Irving A. Leonard

Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – August 30, 1962^[1] Alexandria, Virginia) 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

1. Hispanic American Historical Review
2. 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 978-0-520-07990-8. Retrieved 25 January 2011.