Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Íñigo López de Mendoza, the Marqués de Santillana | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Borgia, Carl Ralph. “Notes on Dante in the Spanish Allegorical Poetry of Imperial, Santillana, and Mena.” Hispanofila 81 (May 1984): 1-10.

Attempts to use the works of Dante as a departure for finding meaning in the allegorical works of Santillana as well as Francisco Imperial and Juan de Mena.

Chaffee, Diane. “Ekphrasis in Juan de Mena and the Marqués de Santillana.” Romance Philology 35, no. 4 (May 1982): 609-16.

Analyzes a work by Santillana in an effort to establish a definition of ekphrasis in relation to his poetry.

Duffell, Martin J. “The Metre of Santillana's Sonnets.” Medium Aevum 56, no. 2 (1987): 276-303.

Examines the various disagreements among scholars regarding the metrics of Santillana's sonnets and aims to reevaluate the hendecasyllables by examining the range of possible models, carefully scrutinizing the surviving manuscripts and...

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