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  Tras la expedición amazónica dirigida en 1560 por Pedro de Ursúa, su asesinato, la usurpación de su puesto por el célebre Lope de Aguirre y el final de este, ajusticiado en Barquisimeto en 1561, se sucedieron un buen número de relaciones del viaje, redactadas por sus participantes con el objeto de ganarse la indulgencia de la Corona. Entre esos relatos, destaca por su calidad el del bachiller Francisco Vázquez. En este artículo analizamos su uso experto de la retórica clásica con fines autoexculpatorios y, en particular, el empleo del retrato retórico, que sigue fielmente las técnicas establecidas por historiadores latinos como Salustio o Livio y descritas por retóricos como Quintiliano. Vázquez, así, caracteriza a sus protagonistas de acuerdo con el esquema moral con que pretende compatibilizar el hecho de su supervivencia en la comitiva de Aguirre con su manifestación de lealtad al rey Felipe II.

In the present article, the functionalities of polymetry in the biblical comedy Amar su propia muerte by the Peruvian author Juan de Espinosa Medrano are identified. It will be demonstrated that the metric structures play a role in constructing the meaning of the theater play. This display of resources would not only reveal a mastery of the metrical conventions of the Siglo de Oro, but also a full understanding of how they can build the comprehensive meaning of the theatrical piece and guide its reception. To achieve these objectives, the potentialities of metric change and the functionality of the proposed segmentations will be explored, taking into account actions, movements, scenic variation, the entrance or exit of characters, temporal changes, etc.

In the decoration of the Jesuit church of San Pedro in Lima, the presence of canvases with Latin inscriptions is interesting. This study is dedicated to the analysis of three specimens located in the pilasters of the central nave. These are works attributed, for iconographic and stylistic reasons, to a Quito workshop from the late 17th century. The study of the works and their inscriptions give us the opportunity to make some reflections on iconographic originality with respect to possible reference models and on the function of Latin in the transmission of the Christian message by the Jesuit Order. Keywords: art, latin, Viceroyalty, Peru, Jesuits  

Inspired by the reforming times, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón wrote a comedy, The Suspicious Truth, where the gallant has no qualms about lying to achieve his goals. A vituperable behaviour based on a conception of lying in accordance with the moral philosophy of the XVIIth Century, which emanated from Aristotle, Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas. The novohispano playwright built a true counterexample in the figure of don García, a warning against the moral relaxation of his time, which of course would not go unpunished.  

The objective of this research is to analyze the indigenous vocabulary that refers to the materia medica in the Tesoro de Medicinas (Mexico, 1672), written by the Spaniard Gregorio López (1542-1596). The sociocultural interest of this work is confirmed because it was published posthumously, despite the fact that the author was not a physician but a hermit revered for his reputation of sanctity. In the seventeenth century, the sociocultural history that accompanies the works on medicines, the constant suspicion of the idolatry of the Indians through their curative remedies arises in the sociocultural history. Writers could choose to keep a distance from the information provided by the Indians, for fear of being branded as idolaters, as happened in the General History of the Things of New Spain, by the Franciscan Sahagún, or give priority to aboriginal information and designations, as Monardes did in his Medicinal History. With a methodology based on the analysis and comparison of texts, it is concluded that Tesoro is a work that is not influenced by the prejudices of the Franciscans, but rather it is a compilation closer to the work of the Sevillian physician.

Tra il XV e il XVII secolo i modelli petrarchisti hanno fortemente influenzato la storia della letteratura, caratterizzando i testi di diversi autori ed autrici che hanno animato il dibattito intorno allo stile, la lingua e i temi dell’autore aretino. L’imitatio e la variatio petrarchesche sono state l’oggetto principale della polemica post-cinquecentesca sull’originalità della scrittura e sulla riproduzione imitativa dei modelli trecenteschi. La lirica trecentesca, sia in forma di imitazione che di opposizione, ha caratterizzato buona parte della produzione letteraria cinquecentesca ed è motivo ricorrente nei testi della Querelle des femmes. L’opera di Cristoforo Bronzini Della dignità e della nobiltà delle donne affronta l’annosa questione della tendenza poetica e letteraria rinascimentale della riproduzione degli schemi petrarchisti attraverso la tensione dialettica tra Tolomei ed Onorio. L’autore marchigiano chiama in causa i principali argomenti del dibattito a lui contemporaneo, interrogando sia i testi trecenteschi che le opere successive sul valore della poesia imitativa.

In this paper we analyze the persuasive strategies identified in the Italian letters written by Margaret of Parma to Philip II between 1560 and 1564, as the governor of the Netherlands and as half-sister of the Spanish monarch. From a pragmatic approach, we show and analyze some representative fragments selected from an unpublished corpus of 47 private letters written in Italian by Margaret of Parma herself, where we find samples of her discursive strategies used to persuade the Spanish monarch not only about political issues and the management of the territories of Flanders, but also about personal and family matters concerning the Duchess of Parma. The language used by Margaret of Parma in her private letters to Philip II show the dichotomy between their relationship within the public sphere as the representative of the Spanish Crown in the Netherlands and their personal tie as half-sister of the king, as a woman, wife and mother.

This paper analyzes the image of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania presented in the chapter XXI of Peregrinación del mundo del doctor Pedro Cubero Sebastián (1682). Starting from the premise of the documentary value of the work, we carry out a comparative analysis of it with the other testimonies of the epoch. Likewise, we determine the nuclei around which the author organizes the narrative material: the political and the religious one, and we focus on investigating the intentional selection of the data that he provides to specify the condition of the recipients of his story, as well as its real purpose.  

This paper focuses on the issue of translations in recent years from Spanish to Hindi, which is spoken in large part of India and also in countries where there is a majority of Indians. Indian readers have known the works of the Spanish Golden Age for a long time since one of the greatest Spanish work, Don Quixote, was translated into Hindi and also into other Indian languages from the second half of the eighteenth century. This work attempts to present the reception of translations from the Spanish Golden Age into Hindi and also analyzes the boom in popularity of translations of Spanish masterpieces of this era. This article has also analyzed the different problems of translation when working with texts from the same period.

Este artículo aborda obras poéticas de autores destacados del Siglo de Oro (Góngora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega y Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz). A través de los tópicos del amor y los celos, se plantea una propuesta de intervención didáctica en el aula. Centramos la mirada en el currículo de primero de Bachillerato, en la asignatura de Lengua Castellana y Literatura, donde se incluyen las obras de estos autores, para establecer una reflexión sobre los mitos del amor romántico en diálogo con los sonetos comentados. Analizamos la misoginia, dentro de los vivos debates que protagonizó la Querella de las mujeres, para establecer líneas de relación entre las imágenes de mujer en el contexto histórico y literario del Barroco y el momento presente en el que se leen dichas obras en las aulas.