Fragmentos de nuevo mundo y conquista
Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 296p., facsimiles, bibl., indices, wrps. New. Item #79217
ISBN: 9788491922452
"Fragmentos de Nuevo Mundo y Conquista", an epic poem about the conquest of Mexico composed by Francisco de Terrazas between 1569 and 1580, which were collected by Baltasar Dorantes de Carranza in his Summary of the Things of New Spain (1604). In the introductory study, new data about the biography of the first Novohispanic poet is provided, the design and scope of his unfinished project are reconstructed, as far as possible, and the debts contracted with the historiographical sources and the literary models that he followed —Francisco López de Gómara, Alonso de Ercilla and Virgilio, mainly, but also other ancient and modern authors—, as well as his language and style,
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