Three new studies for the intellectual biography of Vasco de Quiroga

J. Benedict Warren inaugurated the Coleccion Quiroguiana with three new stu dies of the life and work of Vasco de Quiroga, the humanist scholar and jur ist who in 1538 became bishop of Michoacan, Mexico. The first of these titl es is a facsimile edition and study, accompanied by previously unpublished documents, of Quiroga's will, along with the inventory of his possessions. The second is a documentary compilation of his career as a judge in the cit y of Oran, North Africa, where he demonstrated a judicial capacity ahead of his time. The third title is a facsimile of the Ordenanzas of the pueblos- hospitales of Santa Fe, as well as an exhaustive comparison of their relati onship to More's Utopia.