Historia, poesía y cotilleos. Cristina de Suecia en los <em>Avisos</em> de Barrionuevo

Abstract

The article examines the way in which appears the figure of Queen Christina of Sweden in notices or news of Jeronimo Barrionuevo, who is commenting on contemporary events from a perspective that might consider satirical, and that relates to the conventions of the literary gender, but also with the intellectual and political attitude of the narrator. It is observed that in the dichotomy between real person and character built by the text, some kind of news that spread as gossip, are excluded from the literary treatments of Christina of Sweden, while define the perspective of Barrionuevo. In this case, not only the prerogatives of poetry define the treatment of historical characters; the whispering privileges acquired a special role, linked also with a misogynist perspective of the relator and tendencies of satirical categories.