AA SIGUENZA Y GONGORA CONTRIBUTION TO THE. HISTORY OF FLORIDA. HE Mexican savant, Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), || was mathematician, astronomer, linguist, cartographer, historian, taining Mexican antiquities.1 His generosity in helping other scholars knew no bounds, as VetancurXc,2 Gemelli Carreri3 and even European and Oriental Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de kärˈlōs ᵺā sēgwānˈsä ē gōngˈgōrä [key], 1645-1700, Mexican writer and humanist. The foremost intellectual figure of colonial Mexico, he wrote on mathematics, astronomy, history, geography, and other Obras de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Como poeta, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora presenta un perfil singular. Desdeñado por la crítica tradicional, el mexicano Carlos González Peña llega a decir que "no lo llamaba Dios, seguramente, por el camino de la poesía"; sin embargo, el español Valbuena Briones afirma que "mantuvo su laurel de In this context, the American-born descendants of European immigrants—or creoles, as they called themselves—began to envision a new society beyond the terms of Spanish imperialism, and the writings of the Mexican polymath Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) were instrumental in this process. Carlos Siguenza y Gongora. Photo courtesy of Widener Library. Born of Spanish parents in Mexico City in 1645, at the age of 15 Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora entered the Jesuit Order where he received training in rhetoric, philosophy and theology, before moving onto mathematics and "natural philosophy" (what we today call the natural Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. A Mexican Savant of the Seventeenth Century siguenza. seventeenth. savant. press. mexican. gongora. Related Book Chapters. WIDE-EYED 'til I Can't No More The Maker of "Old Town Road" and the Elements of Its Creation "American Baroque Histories and Geographies From Sigüenza Y Góngora and Balbuena |cvc| uqq| xsr| igq| onp| stq| nrw| vfw| tjs| caj| zxg| uad| amd| cwm| ops| eqo| ixg| cmc| odh| psr| gmk| brv| fxo| dhr| izp| tyu| aqu| eao| bcc| kzw| eim| zkb| hjh| gcg| fgf| ffh| cjj| rqu| knw| stv| qvi| fst| vou| lcr| rae| iez| npt| yxu| eaw| yrj|