University of Groningen
The anti-biography of Gregorio Lopez
Nunes, Lia
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10.33612/diss.127913790
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Nunes, L. (2020). The anti-biography of Gregorio Lopez: Deconstructing a sixteenth-century vita. University of Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.127913790
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Propositions belonging to the PhD thesis of Lia Fernanda Azevedo Nunes, The
anti-biography of Gregorio Lopez. Deconstructing a sixteenth-century vita.
1) An ‘anti-biography’, a term coined by Manuel Rozental, questions the processes of production and reception of historiographical and ideological narratives on historical figures.
2) Gregorio Lopez is presented in this dissertation as a case study of the difference between model and example: He was an example turned into a model, in a process that limited the revolutionary potential.
Cf. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Presentation "O modelo e o exemplo: dois modos de mudar o mundo" on October 9th of 2017, at the event CAD 2, for the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Accessible at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PfE54pj1wU&feature=emb_title]
3) The long, and ultimately unsuccessful, canonization of Gregorio Lopez is indicative of the conflicting interests within and throughout the history of the Catholic Church. 4) Digital Humanities offer a step forward in the treatment of large sets of data that will
show, in the case of the American continent’s colonization, a great number of networks and social relations capable to unveil in more detail the processes of occupation and exploitation of the territory by the European Empires during the Ancien Régime.
5) The study of printing in the early modern era brings forward the possible analogy between the revolutionary technologies of internet and press, bringing to the fore the feasibility of making worldwide connections between traditional and innovative systems of knowledge.
6) Parallels can also be found between the contemporary run to the Space and the Trans-Atlantic navigation, which brings forward the need for understanding its correlation with the massive human migrations we are witnessing now as continuities (or not) of long historical processes.
7) The renaming of Mexican volcanoes, as according to the anthropologist Julio Glockner the volcano Popocatépetl was renamed ‘Don Goyo’ (in reference to Gregorio Lopez), in imitation of the nearby volcano Iztaccíhuatl (renamed ‘Rosa’ in honour of Rosa de Lima), should be seen in connection with the endeavour of the Catholic Church to extinguish all indigenous cults in Meso-America and the expectation that Gregorio Lopez would be canonized as fast as the Peruvian saint. 8) Each man is a wave in what the Spanish intellectual Miguel de Unamuno called the
great sea of History.
Cf. Miguel de Unamuno, En torno al casticismo. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1986.
