Excerpted from: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1748. Relación histórica del viaje a la América meridional…Madrid: Antonio Marin. Modern edition: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1990. Viaje a la América meridional. Andrés Saumell, ed., 2 vols. Madrid: Historia 16. English translation adapted from: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1807. A Voyage to South America: Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, etc. on that Extensive Continent. 2 vols. Trans. John Adams. Fifth Edition. London: John Stockdale, vol. 2, p. 38–39.

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Kagan, Richard, with the collaboration of Fernando Marías. 2000. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493–1793. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

San Cristóbal Sebastian, Antonio. 1988. Arquitectura virreynal religiosa de Lima. Lima: Libreria Studium.