Abstract

RODRIGUEZ BELTRAN, Joaquín. Acumen in the treatise De elogio by Novohispanic Jesuit Nicolás de Peza. Nova tellus [online]. 2022, vol.40, n.2, pp.129-152.  Epub Aug 29, 2022. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2022.40.2.0021x56.

This paper focuses on the Latin treatise De elogio, a manuscript allegedly written by Nicolás de Peza (1712-1777), a Jesuit from New Spain. Since it has not received practically any attention, I tackle its authorship, and then I analyze its structure, its content, the author’s pedagogical intentions. As I will show, the treatise provides us with both technical and aesthetic parameters to assess the many examples of acumen in those elogia, which had huge success in 18th Century New Spain.

Keywords : Eulogy; Rhetoric; New Spain; Jesuits; Acumen.