Don Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora: A Mexican Savant of the Seventeenth Century

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Author: Leonard, Irving Albert (1896-1996) Year: 1929 Publisher: University of California Press Place: Berkeley Description: xii+287 pages with frontispiece, folding map, appendix, bibliography and index. (9 1/4" x 6") bound in full leather with four raised spine bands, black label in gilt. First edition. Don Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700) was one of the first great intellectuals born in the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. He was a Criollo patriot, exalting New Spain over Old. A polymath and writer, he held many colonial government and academic positions. Siguenza entered the Society of Jesus as a novice 1660, took simple vows, 1662 at Tepotzotlan. But he was dismissed from the Jesuits in 1668, for repeatedly flouting Jesuit discipline and going out secretly at night. He repented and pleaded to be reinstated, but the head of the Jesuits, the General of the Order, rejected his plea, saying "The cause of the expulsion of this person is so disreputable, as he himself confesses, that he does not deserve this boon [of being readmitted]". This dismissal was not only a grave disappointment and a blot on his reputation, but it also meant that he would be financially insecure for the rest of this life. He became a secular priest without a parish or a steady income, so the multiple offices he sought during his lifetime were to support himself and his extended family, all of whom, including his father, were dependent on him to the end of his life. He was ordained a secular p

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