Vol. 8 (2021): Special Issue "Poetry, Art and Culture at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century: A Tribute to Baltasar de Medinilla"
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Ercilla, Just War, and Duel: Sources and Reasons

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  • Luis Gómez Canseco
Luis Gómez Canseco
University of Huelva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14603/8C2021

Published 2021-03-25

Keywords

  • Ercilla,
  • Araucana,
  • Just War,
  • Duel,
  • Ginés de Sepúlveda,
  • Bartolomé de las Casas
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How to Cite

Gómez Canseco, L. (2021). Ercilla, Just War, and Duel: Sources and Reasons. Arte Nuevo. Revista De Estudios Áureos, 8, 47–83. https://doi.org/10.14603/8C2021

Copyright (c) 2021 Luis Gómez Canseco

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Abstract

The canto XXXVII of the third part of La Araucana begins with an excursus on Just War and duel that Ercilla used as a preface to commment on the annexation of Portugal by Philip II. The passage has been studied from different points of view, but without ever considering that his direct source is the Tratado de la guerra y el duelo by the poet’s father Fortún García de Ercilla (1528). Besides being a late homage to the paternal memory, this fact conditions the political reading of the text.

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