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Del discurso piadoso al discurso protonacionalista en la biografía de la beata Juana de Jesús

ABSTRACT In 1756, Antonio de Santa María published in Lima the hagiography of Quito-born Juana de Jesús (1662–1703), which was based on an unpublished manuscript penned almost fifty years earlier by Juana's confessor, Antonio Fernández Sierra. Before printing his edition, Santa María wrote his own manuscript in which he commented on the work of his predecessor. Reading the two manuscripts and the printed book side by side, I argue that while the first manuscript focuses on Juana as an exemplary pious woman, Santa María's versions help to reveal the transformation of criollo identity by showcasing feelings of civic pride for its wise men and pious women. I examine how Santa Maria's proto-nationalistic discourse engaged with the politics of the day, thus anticipating the ideas that became widespread only a few years later among the intellectual architects of Quito's first independence movements in whose libraries this book was found.