Abstract
The battle of Lepanto represents one of the most successful literary and artistic recreations of a military event, as its echo travelled fast, reaching the New World shortly. Its image was illustrated in Spain throughout the 16th and 17th centuries in relaciones de sucesos, chronicles, poems, plays and paintings. Our article focuses on all these different types of information, in an attempt to show the complexity of the phenomenon of the battle of Lepanto. The information provided focuses solely on the elements of novelty, insisting very little on what has already been detailed by the previous historiography. Our corpus includes paintings by Titian and works by Fernando de Herrera, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Lope de Vega, González de Eslava etc.
Highlights
RESUMEN: La batalla de Lepanto representa uno de los mayores éxitos artísticoliterarios de la recreación de un evento militar, ya que su eco viajó muy de prisa, alcanzando muy rápidamente el Nuevo Mundo
We are going to make use of the different sources of information about Lepanto, both literary and artistic, in order to recreate the path the information followed since the historical event took place until it became an echo or a collective memory through its projection in art and literature
The works we are going to illustrate in our article focus on the same topic, the naval battle of Lepanto (1571), which corresponds historically to the second period of events alleged by García Cárcel, a time characterized by the harshness in the revaluation of the Turks
Summary
RESUMEN: La batalla de Lepanto representa uno de los mayores éxitos artísticoliterarios de la recreación de un evento militar, ya que su eco viajó muy de prisa, alcanzando muy rápidamente el Nuevo Mundo. THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO: A CULTURAL IMAGE FROM HISTORY TO SPANISH LITERATURE
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