1.5 Beginning of theatre as a literary genre: “The Gardener and Pretend Prince Cloridano”, by Santiago Pita, published between 1730 and 1733

1.4 Beginnings of choteo in literature: the work “Testament of D. Jacinto Josef Pita”, written by Rafael Velázquez after 1762

1.3 Sacred oratory, a boom experienced in the 18th century

1.2.1 The historiographical and poetic work of José Martín Félix de Arrate (1701 – 1765)

1.2 History as a literary genre, Pedro Agustín Morell de Santa Cruz, antecedents dating back to 1703

1.1 The work “Mirror of Patience”, by Silvestre de Balboa, published in 1608

1 Literature in the colonial period (1608 – 1790)