Antonio Ricardo

His father Sebastiano Ricciardi came from Monticello d'Alba, and his mother Gigliani Pallodi was a native of Turin.

He left his wife behind in Mexico City, presumably to deal with his creditors: one of those was Pedro Ocharte, who had supplied him with the necessary equipment to set up his own printing office.

[1] The Third Council of Lima had ordered the production of a trilingual catechism in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.

[3] He was granted official permission to set up a printing press in Lima from Philip II of Spain on 7 August 1584.

[4] The first publication ever printed in South America was a four-page leaflet with information about the new Gregorian calendar of 1582, which was immediately adopted by Spain, but which hadn't yet been communicated to the colonies.