Abstract

This paper circumscribes Epinicios Gratulatorios within the textual corpus written during the Nine Years’ War that simultaneously confirms their vassalage to Spain and demonstrates a Novohispanic pride. This merging can be appreciated in all the silvers and sonnets that commemorate Gaspar de la Cerda’s triumph. In Epinicios, the colonial landscape denatures the European encomiastic tradition. The Pythoness, Daphne, Thetis, Mars, among others, are adapted to the “Novohispanic peculiarities” making a difference between the self and the other.

Highlights

  • As can be noted from the title of this paper, the relationship between colonial vassalage and the presence of Novohispanic pride in poetry serves as the basis for analyzing the “Epinicios Gratulatorios al Conde de Galve” from a perspective that takes into

  • Email: leonortaianoc@gmail.com account the European encomiastic tradition, and examines the form in which these poetic compositions are the result of a creative process produced by a group of Novohispanic poets who have been influenced by specific geographical, social, cultural, and historical factors

  • I allude to the coincidence in time between Gaspar de la Cerda’s administration and the Nine Years’ War

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Introduction

As can be noted from the title of this paper, the relationship between colonial vassalage and the presence of Novohispanic pride in poetry serves as the basis for analyzing the “Epinicios Gratulatorios al Conde de Galve” from a perspective that takes into. It is important to circumscribe “Epinicios Gratulatorios” within a textual corpus that simultaneously confirms their vassalage to Spain and demonstrates a Novohispanic pride. This merging can be appreciated in all the silvers and sonnets that commemorate Gaspar de la Cerda’s triumph. Ireland (battles of Boyne and Aughrim), the Dutch Republic (battles of Walcourt, Staffarda, Ceachy Head, Steinkerque, Landen), Italy (battle of Marsaglia) and several Mediterranean locations, in which France caused considerable damages Foremost among these was the siege of Barcelona in 1697, whose immediate effects were the Spanish capitulation on August 8th; the removal from office of the viceroy Francisco de Velasco; the momentary presence of two viceroys: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Sandoval (the Spanish crown’s representative) and Louis Joseph de Bourbon (the French crown’s representative). EPINICIOS GRATULATORIOS CON QUE ALGUNOS DE LOS CULTISIMOS INGENIOS MEXICANOS, VATICINANDOLE CON NUMEN POETICO MAYORES PROGRESOS EN EL FELICISIMO TIEMPO DE SU GOBIERNO

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