Restos de un ocaso: el testamento de doña Francisca de Briviesca y Arellano

The primary objective of this work is to offer the edition of a recently found documentary piece that is of great importance for the cultural history of the Viceroyalty of Peru. It is Francisca de Briviesca y Arellano’s will. We accompany the edition with a brief introductory study in which we contextualize the will. Between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Francisca de Briviesca y Arel-lano was one of the most influential women in the Viceroyalty. Her fame reached our days mainly because she was the wife and muse of the poet Diego Dávalos y Figueroa, author of the Miscelánea austral (1602).