Historia, ficción y evidencialidad en la épica colonial

Abstract

This paper aims to consider Martin del Barco Centenera’s Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata (1602) as a blending of history and fiction, in the context of an epistemic revolution that took place during the European Renaissance Era and the preceptive reading of Aristotle’s Poetics in Italy and Spain. This paper exposes how this epic poem was elaborated with evidentially modalizations and other rhetoric resources to provide a credible testimony and its moralizating point of view.