Abstract

Comments on Balbuena’s poem Grandeza mexicana, highlighting some reading keys and the danger of prejudices and lack of philological competence that are reflected in Saad Maura’s edition of the poem. The article provide a series of comments and notes to correct errors of the text and to understand references of the poem and its objectives.

Abstract

El peregrino indiano by Antonio de Saavedra Guzmán incorporates new substances into the magic spell. In addition to La Araucana, there are ingredients that come from other discursive traditions: the Renaissance treatises of natural history, the Bible, bestiaries, emblematic literature, magic and grimoires.