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Publicado 2019
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In the present essay, I delve into one of the fundamental inspirations behind an untitled, illustrated manuscript by Diego de Ocaña, an alms-collector travelling on behalf of the miraculous advocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe de Extremadura in the Villuercas mountains: the manuscript now known as the Relación del viaje de fray Diego de Ocaña por el Nuevo Mundo (1599-1608). Because the manuscript did not circulate widely and long remained unpublished, and because it has usually been fragmentarily employed if not marginalized from the chronicling canon for one reason or another, study of its whole remains in its infancy. It has long been known that Ocaña was a reader; and it has been correctly proposed that the appreciation of Ocaña’s evident familiarity with certain romances de caballería, with Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana and with...
