¡El olor! ¡El olor!Olores de santidad en Lima colonial
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Universidad Loyola Andalucía
info
ISSN: 2462-7291
Année de publication: 2016
Volumen: 1
Pages: 61-116
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Nuevas de Indias: Anuario del CEAC
Résumé
During the 17th century, the olfactory illusio lacked the status of other senses such as eyesight or hearing. However, this article seeks to demonstrate how –within the baroque imaginary– scents were ordered according to a moral hierarchy, ranging from the most pestilent ones and, thus, imbued with depravity to the sweetest smells and therefore blessed. Hence, the «odour of sanctity» was a fragrance so much desired by the inhabitants of the Colonial Lima, which was a fetid city, punished by natural catastrophes and abandoned to eschatological pessimism. It was thanks to the discernment of this fragrance in almost forty figures of sanctity that the population of Lima perfumed a malodorous century.