Abstract

CARNEIRO, Sarissa. Pedro de Oña’s Arauco domado (1596) and the articulated imitation of the Aeneid and La Araucana. Nueva rev. filol. hisp. [online]. 2021, vol.69, n.1, pp.79-111.  Epub Mar 02, 2021. ISSN 2448-6558.  https://doi.org/10.24201/nrfh.v69i1.3709.

This article presents an analysis of Canto XIII of Arauco domado in terms of an articulated imitation of Book II of Virgil’s Aeneid, and of Canto XIII of Ercilla’s La Araucana. It is posited that by studying this exercise in aemulatio we are able to observe the creole poet’s creative appropriation of models both ancient and modern, as well as appreciate significant nuances in the meaning of the poem.

Keywords : colonial poetry; imitatio in America; Arauco war; American creole writing; passions.