The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture

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Italicized entries indicate illustrations. I N DE X absolutism, 10, 28, 36, 45–46, 50, 154, 157 Acosta, José de, 40, 157, 162, 174, 284, 295, 320n17, 320n19; on the devil, 41–42, 160, 161, 163, 165, 191–192 admiratio, 30–31, 77, 102 Africans, 147, 148, 152, 154, 156, 181, 300n17 agile platforms, 13, 17, 27, 29, 47, 192, 257, 299n7 Aguiar y Seijas, Francisco de, 188, 189, 212, 215, 222, 238, 243, 328n22 Alberti, Leon Battista, 61–62, 63, 73, 308n22, 312n15 All, the, 10, 194, 197, 205, 206, 207, 210, 214, 216, 218, 219, 220, 227, 233 allegories, 27, 85, 112, 171, 175, 177, 178, 183, 191–192, 220–221, 226, 227, 267 Anglería, Pedro Mártir de, 84, 124, 310n35 apologetics, 7, 18, 22, 125, 131, 137, 142, 165, 198, 203, 207, 325n3. See also hexameral writings aporia, 58, 66, 98, 120, 171, 236, 290, 307n8 arches, triumphal, 26; of Sigüenza, 176, 178, 321nn29–30, 322n32; of Sor Juana, 176, 183, 184, 185, 321n29, 323n42 archetypes, 11, 50, 74, 92, 120, 217, 231– 232, 235, 253 architecture, 2, 26, 62, 63, 65, 72–73, 75, 105, 134, 141, 298n6, 322n35 architexture, 117, 118, 120, 126, 144, 148, 236, 253, 269, 273, 294. See also particularity archives, 7, 239, 240, 253–254, 257, 266, 269, 276, 283, 286, 298n8, 331n5. See also Mexican Archive Arethusa, 218, 219, 230 Aristotle/Aristotelianism, 17, 30–31, 39, 45, 57, 71, 158, 165, 206, 214, 218, 226, 230, 232, 233, 234, 235, 276, 306–307n7 Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, Bartolomé, 19, 251, 252, 253–254, 258, 259–260, 265, 269, 270–279, 280, 282, 286, 296, 333nn22–24 Atlantis, 161, 181 Augustine, Saint, 18, 31, 64, 73, 184, 198, 221, 226–231, 234–235, 252–253, 267, 274, 275, 292, 323n40, 328n21, 329n28, 329n30, 330n33. See also earthly city; Heavenly City 356 The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture autos-da-fé, 23, 25, 264, 332n15 Aztecs, 41, 56–57, 78, 128, 176, 177, 178, 190, 225, 242, 259, 260, 306n6. See also Indians; Moctezuma II; Tenochtitlán Babel, 10, 145, 227, 228, 230, 232–235, 242–244, 249, 251–253, 256–258, 262–268, 274, 278, 281–283, 290– 293, 330n34 Balbuena, Bernardo de, 9, 147, 155, 197, 202, 267, 278, 296; El Bernardo, 93, 126, 130, 311n4; ciphering by, 98, 119–120, 236, 286; “Compendio apologético,” 97, 99, 100, 114, 131, 314n29, 328n21; and creole cause, 128–132, 133, 135, 143; and Dorantes , 135–140; extolling wealth, 19, 100–101, 110, 112–113, 121, 124, 126, 127, 128, 130, 142, 143, 145, 272–273; “La grandeza mexicana,” 10, 40, 74, 96–102, 109–115, 117– 127, 141, 246, 247, 269, 294, 311n4, 315n32, 317n14, 318n5; La grandeza mexicana, 95, 96–98, 99, 102, 105, 108, 122, 123, 124, 129, 139, 296, 311n3, 313n20; and Indians, 122–125, 130, 137, 156, 238, 260; liminality in, 108, 110–112; and Mannerism, 104, 108, 110, 112, 114, 144, 313n17; and metamorphosis, 108–109, 110; and Rosas de Oquendo, 133–134; and Salinas, 282, 284, 286–288, 298n10; Siglo de oro, 91–92, 93, 94–96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 108, 110, 111, 113, 117–118, 222–224, 311n2, 311n4, 315n30; and Sigüenza, 171–173, 181, 186, 198, 313n21, 318n5; and Sor Juana, 183, 186, 219, 220, 235–236, 328n21; and Spectacular City, 8, 92, 93, 94, 97, 127, 145; and Vetancurt, 151, 152, 164, 198, 318n7; and Villalobos, 141– 145; and wonder cabinets, 102, 122, 123, 125, 203, 208, 219, 259 Baroque, 8, 43, 89, 150, 153, 157, 158, 194, 223, 257–258; esthetics of, 36, 140, 179; European, 35–36, 46, 92, 158–159; versus Mannerism, 114–115, 315n30; poetics of, 43–44, 114, 204. See also Neo-Baroque; New World Baroque Basques, 273–274 Benavente, Toribio de. See Motolinía Benjamin, Walter, 158–159, 232, 236, 305n44, 319n12 Bogotá, 10, 251, 265–266, 267, 269 Bosch, Hieronymus, 11, 12, 13, 34, 37, 38, 51, 52, 55, 139, 295, 299n2 Botticelli, Sandro, 11, 48, 51–52, 55, 66, 79, 88, 120, 260, 295, 306n2, 309n29. See also Venus Bramón, Francisco de, 222–224, 296, 329n25 brevitatis formula, 98, 130, 171 cabildo, 15, 24, 68, 141, 176, 261, 300n18 Calancha, Antonio de la, 275, 299n10, 333n26, 335n41 Campbell, Mary Baine, 29, 39, 42, 56, 125, 307n10, 309n27 capitalism, 6, 19, 37, 92, 101, 103, 109, 113, 124, 143, 258. See also inter...