 Balbuena's works represent some of the best of the Baroque's love of color, detail, ornamentation and intellectual playfulness.It also stands as a monument to the pride in the New World that many transplanted Spaniards shared with the "criollo" (the Americans descended from Spanish or Portuguese families).A critical edition of "Grandeza mexicana", prepared with introduction, notes and bibliography by Asima Saad Maura appeared in 2011 (Madrid