The hieronymite father Diego Cisneros, the forbidden books and the peruvian publication Mercurio Peruano

  • Francisco Javier Campos y Fernández de Sevilla Estudios Superiores del Escorial
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201202.001
Keywords: Diego Cisneros, El Escorial monastery, New forms of prayer, enlightenment, Philip IV, Society of True Patriots, the Peruvian Mercury, lands of private ownership, the Inquisition

Abstract

Friar Diego Cisneros (1737-1812) was a Hieronymite monk at El Escorial and librarian at the Royal Spanish Library. In 1772 he went to Peru as auditor of the rents of some encomiendas granted by Philip IV of Spain to a monastery in payment for prayers, a system that the king himself had created, he was also in charge of the sale of liturgical books called Nuevo Rezado (New forms of prayer). For his broad cultural background and open mind he soon made contact with the intellectuals of Lima and became a member of the Society of True patriots which edited a magazine called Mercurio Peruano (Peruvian Mercury) which was an important cultural project is the last decade of the eighteenth century.

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Author Biography

Francisco Javier Campos y Fernández de Sevilla, Estudios Superiores del Escorial

Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras. Doctor en Historia. Doctor Honoris Causa en Letras Humanas por la Universidad Católica de Miami (Florida, Estados Unidos). Consejero de número de los Institutos de Estudios Manchegos y de Estudios Complutenses, ambos del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas de España. Académico Correspondiente de las Reales Academias de la Historia, la de Ciencias, la de Nobles Artes y Bellas Letras de Córdoba, y la de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría de Sevilla. Miembro del Instituto Historicum Augustinianum de Roma. Miembro de la Cofradía Internacional de Investigadores de Toledo. Fundador y director del Instituto Escurialense de Investigaciones Históricas y Artísticas. Director de la revista de investigación Anuario Jurídico y Económico Escurialense. Asesor del Real Consejo de Órdenes Militares para el Patrimonio Cultural. Profesor de Historia en los Estudios Superiores del Escorial (Universidad Complutense).

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Published
2012-12-31
How to Cite
Campos y Fernández de Sevilla, F. J. (2012). The hieronymite father Diego Cisneros, the forbidden books and the peruvian publication Mercurio Peruano. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 54(54), 13-61. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.201202.001
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No 54 (2012): Julio - Diciembre
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