La relación de méritos de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora: entre protección virreinal y singularidad argumentativa

The document corresponds to a relación de méritos y servicios of Carlos de Siguenza, delivered in Madrid in early 1694 and today guarded in the AGI in Seville. The reclación provides valuable information on the ties that bound the scholar and his patron, the Viceroy Gaspar de la Cerda, Count de Galve. It also allows approach the strategy developed by Siguenza y Gongora to get any mercy from the Royal State and benefit from a respectable and perennial professional position.