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• Review of Tirso de Molina, «La fingida Arcadia», ed. Victoriano Roncero, New York/Madrid, IDEA/Instituto de Estudios Tirsianos, 2016, 222 pp. ISBN 978-1-938795-19-0

  I. Torres

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (1), 1

  
  

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  Review of Tirso de Molina, La fingida Arcadia, ed. Victoriano Roncero, New York/Madrid, IDEA/Instituto de Estudios Tirsianos, 2016, 222 pp. ISBN 978-1-938795-19-0

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• Epic and Image: a Socio-Poetic Analysis of Jerónimo Corte-Real’s Manuscripts (ca. 1569 and 1575)

  A. Plagnard

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  The Cadaval 31 codex of the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo and 3693 of the Biblioteca National de Espana are two extraordinary work of art: two epic manuscripts, color illustrated by Jeronimo Corte-Real, their Portuguese author. The poet-painter approach, so original for the medium it uses in comparaison to the rest of the epic production, is perfectly consistent with the enargeia and the visual style of his poems. Text and image share the same rhetoric, serving the figure of the poet artist and humanist, able to shine in every art, so successful in Corte-Real case. This common rhetoric is essential to understand the position of the poet as historian of Portuguese and Spanish wars.

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  The Cadaval 31 codex of the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo and 3693 of the Biblioteca National de Espana are two extraordinary work of art: two epic manuscripts, color [...]

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• The Brief but Fruitful Apostolate of Martin Sarmiento de Hojacastro as Bishop of Puebla and his Indian Defense against the «Encomenderos»

  J. Andreu

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  Along with other religious from the Order of San Francisco, and with the support of the exemplary Juan de Zumarraga, fray Martin Sarmiento de Hojacastro, not only would become General Commissioner of the Order of San Francisco in the New Spain, but it also become titular of the Bishopric of Tlaxcala Puebla, initiating a tough fight against abuses of the encomenderos over the Indians. This research aims to show, by the historical and legal documentary technique, part of the work of this eminent prelate in shaping not only the city of Puebla de los Angeles, but his protection of indigenous.

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  Along with other religious from the Order of San Francisco, and with the support of the exemplary Juan de Zumarraga, fray Martin Sarmiento de Hojacastro, not only would become [...]

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• «Sobre cimientos de alabastro». Marvelous architectures in «El Bernardo» of Balbuena

  M. López

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  Marvelous architectures are part of the literary configuration of a group of early modern subgenres among which is the chivalric epic. This study shows how these spaces are especially abundant in El Bernardo in comparison with similar works, and presents its different variants to examine their relevance in diegetic evolution of the poem.

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  Marvelous architectures are part of the literary configuration of a group of early modern subgenres among which is the chivalric epic. This study shows how these spaces are [...]

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• The Devil as Representation of the Sacred and the Profane in four Spanish Baroque Plays

  D. Hurtado

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  This paper aims to analyze how the scenic word built the devil’s image and the diabolic, in four Spanish Baroque plays: El esclavo del demonio («The Devil’s Slave», 1612), by Antonio Mira de Amescua (1577- 1636); El condenado por desconfiado («Damned for Despair», 1635), by Tirso de Molina (1579-1648); El mágico prodigioso («The Wonder-Working Magician», 1637) y El veneno y la triaca («The Poison and the Antidote», 1677) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). In these plays, the devil is a dynamic character who moves between the sacred and the profane dimension in the theatric scene as well as in the human soul.

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  This paper aims to analyze how the scenic word built the devil’s image and the diabolic, in four Spanish Baroque plays: El esclavo del demonio («The Devil’s Slave», [...]

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• Maroons and Privateers: from Colonial Reality to Historical Epic Poems

  L. Segas

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  This essay pretends to demonstrate how two epic poems, Lope de Vega’s Dragontea (1598) and Miramontes’ Armas antárticas (completed around 1609), compete in a verse dual about the collaboration between English privateers and the Panama Maroons and its dangers at the turn of the 16Th century. Despite offering different approaches on this matter, considering the place of enunciation and the direct or indirect knowledge of this colonial reality, both literary works include Maroons in the Christian European history and its continuity in colonial America. Therefore, the introduction in epic literature of the Maroons as a pressure group in the colonial space has per objective to present them as a new heroic obstacle that the power of the Spanish arms (Miramontes) or of the dominant’s speech (Lope and Miramontes) achieves to vanquish and integrate.

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  This essay pretends to demonstrate how two epic poems, Lope de Vega’s Dragontea (1598) and Miramontes’ Armas antárticas (completed around 1609), compete in a verse dual [...]

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• The Matter of Pirates in Chilean Epic: «Purén indómito» and «La guerra de Chile»

  J. Navascués

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  The theme of piracy in the colonial epic poetry represents patterns of military defense against an enemy that sets an internal and external challenge from the sea and land. Sometimes, Pirates were especially considered dangerous if they tried to get alliances with subjected populations of Indians. In this article I begin by exploring the presence of Dutch privateers in a passage of Puren indómito, poem by Diego Arias de Saavedra, and their frustrated attempt to gain allies among Araucanian people. Then, two final Cantos of La guerra de Chile, an anonymous poem, were analyzed in relation with the tragic destiny of other Dutch sailor, Jacob Mahu, and how certain intertextual comparison with the episode of Adamastor in Os Lusiadas is argued from a global political lecture. Both poems show the fragility of the Spanish military force in the region.

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  The theme of piracy in the colonial epic poetry represents patterns of military defense against an enemy that sets an internal and external challenge from the sea and land. [...]

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• The Presence of Ruperto de Deutz in Quevedo’s Work, «Isla de los Monopantos»

  M. Panarelli

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  Between the lines of the «Isla de los Monopantos», libel number XXXIX included by Francisco de Quevedo in his work La hora de todos, we can find a quote that seems extracted from St Jerome’s «Commentary on Isaiah»; this interpretation was pondered after the reading of the second chapter of the Política de Dios, in which Quevedo exhibits a similar re-elaborated version to the passages of St Jerome. This article proposes its confutation; starting from the analysis of the quote, we assert Ruperto of Deutz as the direct influence of Quevedo’s transcript, the same reference source that was used by the author for the writing of Homilía a la Santísima Trinidad and Sobre las palabras que dijo Christo á su santísima Madre en las bodas de Caná de Galilea. Lastly, a further contribution is determined by the Annals of Jacques Salian, vastly handled by Quevedo during his literary activity; in these compilations which include Ruperto’s works, it’s possible to discover crucial passages for the support of this analysis.

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  Between the lines of the «Isla de los Monopantos», libel number XXXIX included by Francisco de Quevedo in his work La hora de todos, we can find a quote that seems extracted [...]

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• An Edition of Sacramental Plays and Comedias by Calderón in the XVIIIth Century: the Project of Fernández de Apontes

  D. Ortega

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  The actual essay analyzes briefly the situation of the Calderonian plays within the new taste of the Neoclassicist period, in order to examine the editions of his work that were printed from the end of the 17th century to the middle of the 18th. First of all, we study the editorial task developed by Vera Tassis in the comedies and Pando y Mier in the sacramental plays. Then, we pay attention to the volumes prepared by Fernández de Apontes to be printed during the second half of the 18th century, when following the theorists and the preserved documents (number of sold tickets in the theatres), Calderón seemed not to be so popular amongst the Enlightment audience. Therefore, we would try to figure out the reasons why Fernández de Apontes printed the complete work written by the playwright in a historical moment in which the taste of the audience had changed.

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  The actual essay analyzes briefly the situation of the Calderonian plays within the new taste of the Neoclassicist period, in order to examine the editions of his work that [...]

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• Ontologies and Epistemologies to Achieve Knowledge in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz’s Poem «Primero Sueño»

  L. López

  Revista Test Hipogrifo (2017). Vol. 5, (2), 1

  
  

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  In this article, I propose reading one section of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem «Primero Sueño» as a philosophical reflexion about the discussion between realists and nominalists, on the one hand, and as a reflexion about the preferable based realist/nominalist methodology on the other hand. The realist perspective presented in this poem has a Platonic-Augustinian character. The nominalist perspective —an ontology which sor Juana seems to have preferred— has an Ockhamist vein.

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  In this article, I propose reading one section of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s poem «Primero Sueño» as a philosophical reflexion about the discussion between realists [...]

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