La mentira histórica de un pirata caribeño: el descubrimiento del trasfondo histórico de los Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (1690)

Abstract

The present work focuses on offering incontrovertible documentary proof, contextualized historically, that the text produced by the collaboration of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Alonso Ramírez in 1690, was not fictional but rather an account based on the real experiences of a Puerto Rican mariner. The evidence comes from the correspondence between the Count of Galve, Viceroy of New Spain, and his brother, the Duke of Infantado, both opposed to the court party led by the Cardenal-Archbishop Portocarrero, which would only come to power with the Bourbon accession of 1700. Consequently, we must re-evaluate the creation of the Infortunios as a step in the political and imperial strategies.