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What Crónicas de Indias did Calderón de la Barca Read? ¿Qué crónicas de Indias leyó Calderón de la Barca?

Gutierrez Meza, Jose Elias

Resumen

It can be stated with certainty that Pedro Calderón de la Barca read two crónicas de Indias, since the sources of his only American-themed comedia La aurora en Copacabana are the second part of the Comentarios reales (1617) by the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and the Historia del Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana (1621) by the Augustinian friar Alonso Ramos Gavilán. However, the question of this play’s sources is not yet settled for some critics; hence other Augustinian sources have been proposed. This article examines such proposals.

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Gutierrez Meza, Jose Elias

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crónicas de Indias Order of Saint Augustine Sources Spanish Golden Age theatre Virgin of Co-pacabana