(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2008-03-07) Gálvez Peña, Carlos M.
A critical reading of the third, and largely unknown, memorial of the Franciscan Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova (Madrid, 1639) reveals ideas about viceregal economy and politics that are absent from his more famous work, Memorial de las historias del Nuevo Mundo Pirú (Lima, 1630). The 1639 text allows one to establish thematic continuities not only among the writings of his corpus but also with the writings of contemporary authors. Placing Salinas in the ideological context of the seventeenth century thus provides a better understanding of the origin of his ideas. Additionally, this reading discusses the validity of the category of cronista, which has been applied traditionally to Salinas, and proposes for him instead the category of letrado of the early modern period.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2008-03-07) Véliz Cartagena, Mauricio
This article examines the representation of musical culture in three Peruvian authors of the seventeenth century. Analysis of their written works highlights the presence and usage of musical knowledge through which these historical actors demonstrate a capacity to construct in writing an individual and collective identity in colonial society.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2008-03-08) Rodríguez Garrido, José A.
A significant group of Italian-style plays (i.e. stagings that made use of spectacular scenic resources) were performed in Lima in 1672-1747), always in connection with festivities of an imperial nature. Taking as its basis a corpus of fifteen theatrical works, this study examines the conditions of their reception as well as the material avenues that allowed for the development of this type of theater in the capital of the Peruvian viceroyalty. Topics of analysis include: the context and purpose of these representations, the place in which they were presented, their intended public, and the stage media they employed.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2008-03-07) Cook, Noble David
This essay reconstructs the biography of the Franciscan Luis Jerónimo de Oré, one of the most distinguished personages of American colonial history of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It emphasizes his role as missionary in the New World and representative of his order in Europe. Member of a long-honored family of the local elite in Huamanga, Oré established ties with other cultural groups in diverse regions such as the central Andes of Peru and Bolivia, the coast of Florida, and southern Chile.