Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela

Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela was born in 1676 in Potosí, the son of Mateo Arzáns Dapífer and María Jordana de Castro. In 1701 he married Juana de Reina, from La Plata. Little is known of his life, except that he was an assiduous spectator of his city's festivals and bullfights. He devoted nearly thirty years to a work he dedicated to no authority and never published, and died on 25 January 1736; his son Diego briefly continued writing it.

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• ChronicleHistoria de la Villa Imperial de PotosíBartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela · 1736not translated into EnglishLiterature