Usufruct of an inverted heritage: the classical canon in Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola's dialogues

Abstract

This work studies the classical canon in the dialogues of Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, three original texts and a translation written between the last years of 16^th century and the beginning of the 17^th. The way in which Argensola imitates some Graeco-Latin writers, uses the myths and employs several literary techniques from the Antiquity are studied in the lines below. Also, all the principal issues of these dialogues and how the writer transmits them using partially the classical heritage are detailed in this article.