Heuristic remarks on the historiographic elocution in Álvaro Semedo’s El Imperio de la China
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Abstract
After a brief exposition of the work El Imperio de la China, by Jesuit Álvaro Semedo, I examine elements of the elocution of the historical and geographical genres, the moralizing purpose of the 1600s, the relationship of historical discourse with rhetoric and poetics, as well as the understanding of its post-Tridentine evangelizing cause, to understand the possibilities of truth in History
Keywords
- Chinese Empire
- Historiographic elocution
- Álvaro Semedo
- Rhetoric
- Poetics
