La Araucana de D. Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga Edicion del centenario, ilustrada con grabados, documentos, notas historicas y bibliograficas y una biografia del autor

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Author: Ercilla y Zuniga, Alonso de (1533-1594) Year: 1910-1918 Publisher: Imprenta elzeviriana Place: Santiago, Chile Description: 5 volumes: volume 1 Texto: xx+607 pages with frontispiece, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, maps and plates; volume 2 Documentos: 552 pages; volume 3 Vida de Ercilla: 337 pages with portraits, illustrations and index; volumes 4-5 Illustrations: 512 pages with facsimile titles to the first publications; 559 pages with facsimile signatures, plates and index. Folio (15" x 10 3/4") with original wrappers bound in to cloth binding. Compiled and arranged by Jose Toribio Medina. La Araucana consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem’s three parts. The first part was published in 1569; the second part appeared in 1578, and it was published along with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589. The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real (that is Italian ottava rima), the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written. A difficult eight-line unit of 11-syllable verses that are linked by a tight rhyme scheme abababcc, the octava real was a challenge few poets met. It had been adapted from Italian only in the 16th century, and it produces resonant, serious-sounding verse that is appropriate to epic themes. This edition is limited to 600 copies. La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it i

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