"Alma, si ciega vas tras tus antojos" : going blindly through seventeenth-century literature
López Lorenzo, Cipriano (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Faced with the exaltation of sight as a perfect divine creation, so evident in the Uso de los antojos (1623) by Daza de Valdés, and faced with the satirical-burlesque tone of popular literature, dogmatic theology considered it inappropriate to praise a sense that deviated human understanding and made it difficult to comprehend the sacramental mysteries in depth. Through different fragments of literature produced in seventeenth-century Seville, we will see how the Church constructed, parallel to the scientific and popular discourses, a catechetical rhetoric that sought to deny physical sight and any device intended to enhance or restore it. The idea was to promote a knowledge of God guided by faith, allegorized as a blindfolded woman. Thus, we will see how the glasses and the blindfold capitalized two discourses that could feed back on each other and at the same time evidence the porosity of baroque literature towards the new advances in physics.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicat a:	Humanities, Vol. 12 Núm. 6 (december 2023) , p. 133, ISSN 2076-0787

DOI: 10.3390/h12060133

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