The The historical context and book culture of Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202402.011
Keywords: Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, bookish culture, book trade, eighteenth century French literature

Abstract

Recognized by his contemporaries as a scholar in different branches of literature and science, Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo was the author of numerous works and an insatiable reader. In this text I study the circumstances and means that allowed him to access books and, therefore, cultivate reading: the instruction received at the University of San Marcos, the gatherings and academies in which he participated in Lima, and the book trade. existing in this city. As an active member of the Republic of colonial letters, Peralta must have accumulated an important collection of books throughout his life, but unfortunately only a partial record of it has come to us, thanks to the post-mortem inventory of his assets, carried out in 1743. Despite its limitations, this inventory is a historical source of exceptional interest because it confirms Peralta's encyclopedic curiosity and allows us to reconstruct the historical context that made it possible. In the final part of this essay, I transcribe said list of books and propose the respective identifications.

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Author Biography

Pedro M. Guibovich Pérez, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Es doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Columbia, Nueva York. Es profesor principal del Departamento de Humanidades de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y profesor asociado del Departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad del Pacífico, Lima. Ha sido becario de la John Carter Brown Library (Universidad de Brown), la Beinecke Library (Universidad de Yale), el Center for the Study of Books and Media (Universidad de Princeton), entre otras instituciones. Sus princi- pales campos de estudio son la historia del libro y la lectura, la historia de la Iglesia y de la Inquisición en el virreinato del Perú. Ha publicado los libros Censura, libros e Inquisición en el Perú colonial, 1570-1754 (2003); Lecturas prohibidas. La censura inquisitorial de libros en el Perú tardío colonial (2013); El edificio de letras. Jesuitas, educación y sociedad en el Perú colonial (2014); Imprimir en Lima durante la colonia. Historia y documentos, 1584-1750 (2019), y El Argos de la Fe. Los textos censurados por la Inquisición de Lima (2023). A la fecha prepara un estudio sobre libros y lectores que se titulará Un mundo entre manos. Comercio y consumo de libros en el virreinato del Perú

Published
2024-12-28
How to Cite
Guibovich Pérez, P. M. (2024). The The historical context and book culture of Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 76(76), 325 - 357. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202402.011
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No 76 (2024): Julio - Diciembre
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