Abstract

TORRES MAGALLON, Jorge Luis. The Indian Arruns: Lucanean Imitation in Mexicana (1594) by Gabriel Lobo Lasso. Nova tellus [online]. 2025, vol.43, n.1, pp.173-190.  Epub May 23, 2025. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2025.43.1/071s00x24w68.

In his poem Mexicana (1594), canto 22, Gabriel Lobo Lasso de la Vega recounts the omens of the fall of Tenochtitlan which López de Gómara refers to in Conquista de México (1552). In this article we analyse how the poet fictionalizes the chronistic passage by imitating the Prodigy catalogue in Lucan’s Pharsalia and by creating Goro, a fictional character modelled upon the lucanean Arruns. We also aim to prove that the poet used the Spanish translations of Lucan’s Pharsalia by Laso de Oropesa (1541) and of Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata by Juan Sedeño (1587).

Keywords : Lobo Lasso de la Vega; López de Gómara; Lucan; Torquato Tasso; Alonso de Ercilla.

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