CULTURE: LITERATURE. THE HUMANISTS But at the very end of the century (Burgos, 1499) the converted and semi-clandestine Jew Fernando de Rojas (d.1541) gave Spain his first modern masterpiece: the Tragicomedia…
The major effort of the eighteenth century was to revive tragedy within the neoclassical system of three units, promoting an abundant exemplification of French models with translations and adaptations by…
The sacred eloquence of the Spanish seventeenth century is copious, reasoning, solidly firm in the dogma and seriousness of its own doctrine. He does not disdain worldly and literary allurements,…