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Question SA-14. Here is the text reference (p. 133/2):

Although his topics ranged from the Peru of El Inca Garcilaso through to his days of the War of the Pacific with Chile in the late 19th Century, his favorite era was the eighteenth century of the Vice-regal capital of Lima. He was especially fascinated with the scandalous era when the viceroy's concubine, Micaela Luján, exercised great influence. She was the subject of various "tradiciones", and her nickname (given by the disapproving upper crust of Lima society) was "La Perrichola", derived from "perra" (female dog) and "chola" (Indian half-breed). Palma himself was of mestizo blood, and his "tradiciones" may also have been a response to his own experiences with the snobbishness of upper-class Lima.