Antonio Ricardo and the first printing press in South America (Lima, 1584)

A Piedmontese printer who had worked three years in Mexico moved his shop to Lima and in 1584 produced the first book printed in South America: the trilingual Doctrina christiana of the Third Council of Lima, in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. The licence that admitted the press says why it was wanted - the correctors of Quechua and Aymara could not sail to Castile. The same document names him alone as printer and lets nobody hold the books until the audiencia had examined them.