One Fine Night in Veracruz

Le Guin discusses sound examples which are intended as expressive emphases to the written text as much as demonstrations of its scholarly claims, highlighting their relationship and the relationship of the interpolated poems to those claims. People in fairly high places in colonial society, including those with posts in the colonial government itself, played important parts in advancing the struggle for independence, even as they worked dutiful day jobs on behalf of Spain and Spanish interests. The present inquiry concerns such a person, a distinguished resident of El Sagrario, Antonio Ignacio Lopez Matoso. Born in 1761 in Mexico City to a Mexican criollo father and a Spanish mother, he became a lawyer, and a successful one: member of the Real e Ilustre Colegio de Abogados, Relator de la Audiencia for some thirty years, and part of the Real Academia de Derecho Teorico Practico.