La Grandeza Mexicana de Bernardo de BalbuenaAuthor: Balbuena, Bernardo de (c1561 1627), Van Horne, John (editor) Year: 1930 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Place: Urbana Description: 176 pages with facsimiles, errata laid in. Small quarto (10 1 4" x 7") bound in original wrappers. University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Volume XV, number 3. Bernardo de Balbuena (c1561 1627) was a Spanish poet. He was the first of a long series of Latin American poets who extolled the