The upper class and its high stakes: The love for games in the illustrated Lima

Abstract

The article analyzes the liking for the games the Lima high class had and their contradictory speech of reforming the passion for the games when it came to a player with an important position or status. The illustrated Lima of the eighteenth century became a true “City of the Games” due to the immeasurable number of players of all social status. At a time when the introduction of the illustrated precepts was reflected in the questioning of the existence of customs contrary to the postulate of an ideal civilized society, the persistence of the habit of wasting money was opposed to it.