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Eighteenth-Century Oratory and Poetic Contests in Peru

Critics of colonial Latin American letters have long debated whether the literary friendship between Pedro Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier and Pedro Peralta Barnuevo was defined by rivalry. As this book will demonstrate through a study of the authors’ individual and collective works, the spirit of competition was academic, not antagonistic, and this resulted in both poets participating in creative venues that yielded compositions admired by patrons and the public. Writings that they published, both individually and jointly, compliment one another and point more to collaboration than contention. -from the preface

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