Censorship and Art in Pre-Enlightenment Lima: Pedro De Peralta Barnuevo's Dialogo De Los Muertos:LA Causa Academica (Scripta Humanistica)

Scripta Humanistica. 1994. 238 p.
This is the first translation and critical edition of Peralta's work. The Diálogo, an allegorical satire, has challenged
scholars for centuries; it represents a critique of pre-Enlightenment academies and a defense of artistic freedom. The study focuses on issues of colonial discourse and status, literary convention and censorship, social tradition and crisis.