Abstract
A brief historic biographical sketch which begins with Hernán Cortés being named general captain of New Spain, going through the viceroys, from Antonio de Mendoza to José de Yturrigaray y Aróstegui (1742-1815). The author retells the discovery of an intriguing document, found in the Manuscript Section of Spain’s National Library, which narrates the reception and homage held for Yturrigaray and his wife in the San Agustín de las Cuevas (nowadays Tlalpan) country house of the second Count of Regla, Pedro Ramón Romero de Terreros. In two sonnets and an eighth-line stanza, of heroic encouraging verses, the figures of the viceroy and vice-queen are exalted, without suspecting as to Yturrigaray being one of the first victims of the Insurgent movement which had begun to arise.