In this article, I analyze the intersections between poetry and history in Melchor Jufré de Águila’s Compendio Historial del Descubrimiento y Conquista del Reino de Chile (1630). To that end, I first describe the book’s material trajectory in order to distinguish writing and publishing practices linked to specific orders of the discourse. Then I discuss the different historiographic and poetic models used in the text, examining the humanist tradition of the abbreviated chronicle and the substitution of the epic poetry by Gongorist poetry as the model for representing the conquest at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Finally, I analyze Jufré de Águila’s critique of defensive war, as well as his dispute with Jesuit missionary Luis de Valdivia, illustrating some of the discursive conflicts that were held in the nascent lettered order of colonial Chile.
Keywords:
Melchor Jufré de Águila, seventeenth-century Chile, poetics, Gongorism, Luis de Valdivia
Figueroa, J. S. (2016). Poesía e historia en el Compendio Historial (1630) de Melchor Jufré de Águila. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (93). Retrieved from https://revistaliteratura.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/44338
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