Between Christianity and a project of a tradition: Jerusalén conquistada, by Lope de Vega

Authors

  • Wagner Monteiro Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i22p366-387

Keywords:

Lope de Vega, Jerusalén Conquistada, Epic poetry

Abstract

This article aims to locate the Jerusalén conquistada, by Lope de Vega within his religious production and the Golden Centuries in Spain. Published in 1609, Jerusalén is the result of the most ambitious project by Lope de Vega, a Spanish writer famous for theater, but who wrote several epic poems between the end of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th. Using the Italian model of Torquato Tasso, with his Gerusalemme liberata (1581), Lope wrote his narrative to praise the Spanish court of the Austrias and, at the same time, to acquire on Spanish soil the status that Luís de Camões had achieved in Portugal.

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Author Biography

  • Wagner Monteiro, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

    Doutor em Literatura Espanhola pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. É  professor de Língua e Literatura Espanhola na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).

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Published

2021-11-01

How to Cite

MONTEIRO, Wagner. Between Christianity and a project of a tradition: Jerusalén conquistada, by Lope de Vega. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 22, p. 366–387, 2021. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i22p366-387. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/caracol/article/view/179733.. Acesso em: 9 jun. 2024.