ABSTRACT

Few sixteenth- and seventeenth-century creoles lived a life as mobile as don Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberruza. Born in Tecamachalco (Puebla) in 1564, he travelled to the Spanish court at the age of twelve. After his return to New Spain in 1580, he fought against the Chichimeca in New Mexico and against English pirates in Acapulco, served as interim governor in Manila and spent a year in Japan after having shipwrecked on its coasts. After another stay in Spain, he served as governor in Panama from 1621 to 1627 before returning to New Spain, where he received another office in Veracruz. Such movements played a crucial role in the identity that Vivero and other men fashioned for themselves. In his interactions with the Crown, Vivero produced a self-image that tied his worthiness of the king’s favour to his mobility. This paper explores how the relationship between mobility and the distribution of royal grace affected the movements within the Spanish empire and the writings of those petitioning the Spanish Crown for royal favor. I argue that over time Vivero revised his stories, left movements unmentioned, or recalibrated the balance between mobility and rootedness while fashioning various images of a deserving self.

摘要

很少有 16 和 17 世纪的克里奥尔人过着像堂罗德里戈·德维韦罗·阿贝鲁扎那样流动的生活。他于 1564 年出生于 Tecamachalco（普埃布拉），十二岁时前往西班牙宫廷。1580 年返回新西班牙后，他在新墨西哥州与 Chichimeca 作战，在阿卡普尔科与英国海盗作战，在马尼拉担任临时总督，并在日本海岸遭遇海难后在日本度过了一年。再次留在西班牙后，他于 1621 年至 1627 年在巴拿马担任总督，然后返回新西班牙，在那里他在韦拉克鲁斯获得了另一个职位。这些运动在维韦罗和其他男人为自己塑造的身份中发挥了至关重要的作用。在与王室的互动中，维韦罗塑造了一种自我形象，将他是否值得国王宠爱与他的机动性联系在一起。本文探讨了流动性和皇室恩典分配之间的关系如何影响西班牙帝国内部的运动以及那些向西班牙王室请愿以寻求皇室恩宠的人的著作。我认为，随着时间的推移，Vivero 修改了他的故事，没有提及动作，或者重新调整了流动性和扎根性之间的平衡，同时塑造了一个应得的自我的各种形象。