Identifier: TDX:558
Authors:
Bernal Martín, María
Abstract:
Our thesis was born with the goal of studying the poetry created on the scope of the baroque festival, since there is no doubt that the verses were an important part, or better, an essential part of the entertainments with which the society from the XVII century celebrated some of its more notorious events.A poetry that we wanted to call unusual because, alive and overwhelming, tuned out to be distant to the elitist, bookish and stagnant conception with which, from our perspective of the XX and XXI centuries, we contemplate sometimes metrics and imitatio from the XVII century.So unusual, at least, was placed this poetry to us by the chronicles of those feasts. From all those books, we choose the one written by Alonso de Salazar to narrate the events with which the Jesuit school of Salamanca celebrated in 1610 the beatification of S. Ignacio de Loyola: 'Fiestas, que hizo el insigne Collegio de la compañía de Iesvs de Salamanca, a la Beatificación del gloriosos Patriarcha S. Ignacio de Loyola en Salamanca por la viuda de Arus Taberniel, Año MDCX'. From his words, to which we added the news of other feasts, we began this learning, which from the beginning was articulated in two parts:The first part that we titled 'Preliminary Research', analyzes the verses that Alonso de Salazar left us in his book, trying to create a reading that exceeds the merely literary aspects, and that, almost in an exercise of 'compositio loci', imagines them projected in their context. In this way, and always holding to Salazar's testimony, we went through the iconography of the ephemeral monuments and the links that were established between this iconography and the poems of the feast; we also analyzed the chariots, their theatres and symbols, in order to understand the poetry that they carried an
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