Tardes americanas (Mexico, 1778): a history of the Indies argued between an Indian and a Spaniard

A Franciscan printed a history of Mexico in Mexico in 1778 and put it in the mouth of two speakers, an Indio and an Espanol, credited on the title page as its authors. The Indian holds the position, presses for the source and refuses an argument he has not read; the Spaniard quotes the bibliography. The prologue mocks curates who sit before Indians like the Sultan, and the hospitals of Michoacan become a dispute about evidence. It is also a friar's ventriloquism.