Abstract

MARTINEZ TERAN, Teresa. La reedición de 1729 del Origen de los indios (1607) de fray Gregorio García. Cuicuilco [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.42, pp.121-142. ISSN 0185-1659.

There are many questions to be answered concerning the life and work of the spanish dominican fray Gregorio García (¿1554-1633?). Some of these questions, related to the chronology of his travel in America, could be resolved, others are approached together with the study of the period in which he lived in Baeza. Another problem is the reason that the Origin of the Indians, just published in 1607, voas reedited in Madrid in 1729 under the first Bourbon regime. Why did this reedition, attributed to Gonzalez de Barcia, appear enlarged by more than a third its original size? Why did the one responsible for the edition hide in anonymity and what did this work mean in the cultural context of the time? This article, inscribed in the studies of history of ideas and rationalities, strives to understand these facts and vhat they shov of the changes and the mental persistence between the Austria and the Bourbon dynasties.

Keywords : Origins of the Indians; Gregorio García; New World; Bourbon Enlightenment.