Chapter XXVII: Historical and Narrative Poems

Old Epic Tendencies 454
Revived in the Time of Charles the Fifth 455
Hierónimo Sempere 455
Luis de Çapata 456
Diego Ximenez de Ayllon 457
Hippólito Sanz 457
Alfonso Fernandez 458
Espinosa and Coloma 458
Alonso de Ercilla 459
His Araucana 461
Diego de Osorio 464
Pedro de Oña 466
Gabriel Lasso de la Vega 467
Antonio de Saavedra 467
Juan de Castellanos 468
Centenera 469
Gaspar de Villagra 469
Religious Narrative Poems 470
Hernandez Blasco 470
Gabriel de Mata 470
Cristóval de Virues 470
His Monserrate 471
Nicolas Bravo 472
Joseph de Valdivielso 472
Diego de Hojeda 473
His Christiada 473
Alonso Diaz 474
Antonio de Escobar 474
Alonso de Azevedo 474
Rodriguez de Vargas 474
Jacobo Uziel 474
Sebastian de Nieva Calvo 474
Duran Vivas 474
Juan Dávila 474
Antonio Enriquez Gomez 474
Hernando Dominguez Camargo 474
Juan de Encisso y Monçon 474
Imaginative Epics 475
Orlando Furioso 476
Nicolas Espinosa 476
Abarca de Bolea 477
Garrido de Villena 477
Agostin Alonso 477
Luis Barahona de Soto 477
His Lágrimas de Angélica 478
Bernardo de Balbuena 479
His Bernardo 480