Las redes personales en Perú y España de dos ilustrados católicos: Pablo de Olavide y José Eusebio Llano Zapata

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss the principal motives that led to the failure of the personal networks that two enlightened Peruvians nurtured in their homeland and in Spain throughout the eighteenth century. The investigation seeks to shed light upon the limitations, shortcomings and fortuitous or unfortunate events that determined the collapse of the circle of political friendships promoted by Olavide, as well as the failure of the patron-client relationship fostered by Llano Zapata.