Abstract

LASKE, Trilce. The relación de méritos of Carlos de Siguenza: Between protection viceregal and argumentative singularity. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2016, n.55, pp.117-123. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehn.2016.04.001.

The document corresponds to a relación de méritos y servicios of Carlos de Siguenza, delivered in Madrid in early 1694 and today guarded in the AGI in Seville. The reclación provides valuable information on the ties that bound the scholar and his patron, the Viceroy Gaspar de la Cerda, Count de Galve. It also allows approach the strategy developed by Siguenza y Gongora to get any mercy from the Royal State and benefit from a respectable and perennial professional position.

Keywords : Cultural history; Patronage; Clientelism; Career paths; Viceroyalty of New Spain.