Abstract

Abstract The article explores a lengthy poem about the life of St. Thomas Aquinas written in Lima and published in Spain by the Dominican friar Adrián de Alecio (El Angélico, 1645). It starts by describing the author and his milieu. The following is an evaluation of the extent to which the text takes up and adapts the writing models and hagiographic sources from the centre of the Empire. Finally, the article aims to place the poem in the axis formed by the poetic figures of Lope de Vega and Luis de Góngora.

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