Francisco de Paula Castañeda, amanuensis and author

Abstract

Doña María Retazos, a newspaper from Río de la Plata (1821-1823), was created, written, printed and distributed by the franciscan priest Francisco de Paula Castañeda (1776-1832) a key political actor and writer of the revolutionary decade and of the tumultuous and complex ‘20s. One of the most important elements of the text is its high intertextual character through which Castañeda is exposed as amanuensis of theological antiques, readings of the Iberian Baroque and Spanish and French Illustration, among others; in this way, the amanuensis becomes author and his newspaper in to a modern enterprise.