La agudeza en el tratado De elogio del jesuita novohispano Nicolás de Peza

Abstract

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.