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The Discurso en loor de la poesía, an anonymous prologue to the Primera parte del Parnaso antártico de obras amatorias, by Diego Mexía de Fernangil (1608), is an exponent of the group of poems aimed at praising and defending poetry from those who do not consider the importance of its...
Raúl Marrero-Fente, Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI. Historia, teoría y práctica, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2017. ISBN: 978-84- 16922-34- 5 This book offers the most extensive study published so far on colonial epic poetry of the XVI century. This poetic genre of medieval tradition is renewed during the conquest...
The production of texts of the Jesus Company is certainly vast. In the same way that they produced emblem books to instruct in the Catholic faith, they wrote manuals on rhetoric that became famous in their time and are still today real bibliographical jewels. The treatise De arte rhetorica of...
His contemporaries knew him as El Lunarejo. Juan de Espinosa Medrano (1630? - 1688) was probably born at the town of Calcauso, part of the Doctrine of the Bishopry of Cuzco that today belongs to the Department of Apurimac. We ignore information about his parents’ biography and formative years. Nevertheless...