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PEDROSA, José Manuel. Miguel de Cervantes, John Donne y una canción popular: el retrato de la dama en el corazón del amante. Acta poét [online]. 2005, vol.26, n.1-2, pp.69-92. ISSN 2448-735X.

Several poems, both in oral tradition and in learned literature, develop the topic of the female's portrait engraved in her lover's heart, as can be appreciated when opening his chest after his death. Petrarch, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Moreto, John Donne and many other authors have used this motif in written literature. So has oral tradition, as shown by preserved versions in Spain, Latin America, Portugal and Brazil.