The Earthly Paradise in the America of Xvii Century: Antonio de Leon Pinelo and Simao de Vasconcellos

This paper analyzes the works of two authors of the XVII century which locate the Earthly Paradise in the American continent: El Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo by the Spanish lawyer and bibliophile Antonio de Leon Pinelo and Das noticias antecedentes, curiosas e necessarias das cousas do Brasil by the Portuguese Jesuit priest Simao de Vasconcellos. The analysis is a review of the arguments which both authors develop for the purposes of locatingthe Garden of Eden in the Amazon. Based on the citation of eminent authorities and the edenization of the territory, both show an enunciation perspective positioned in America, from which they argue an identitary vision of the peripheral thought.