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Ercilla and la Araucana: Spain and the New World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Frank G. Dawson
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The impact upon Europe of the discovery and conquest of the New World is conventionally described in terms of political and economic effects. That there was an aesthetic and intellectual impact of equallygreat import is seldom recalled. The discovery and exploration of a totally new and unknown world of strange beasts, flora, and human beings affected European predilections and patterns of thought in a fashion which can only be likened to the reaction of thoughtful men today, when confronted with the wonders and potentialities implicit in the exploration of outer space.

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Research Article
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Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1962 , pp. 563 - 576
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Copyright © University of Miami 1962

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References

1 For particulars of Ercilla's life, see: José Toribio Medina, Vida de Ercilla, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1948.

2 Canto II, p. 49. (Citations refer to an English translation — The Araucaniad, Lancaster and Manchester (trans.), Vanderbilt University Press, 1945.)

3 Canto III, p. 54.

4 Canto II, p. 42.

5 Canto XIII, p. 138.

6 Canto XIV, p. 141.

7 Canto XVI, p. 163.

8 Canto IX, p. 97.

9 Canto XXXIV, p. 301-302.

10 Canto XV, p. 150.

11 Cantos XX - XXI.

12 Cantos XXVII - XXVIII.

13 Cantos XIII-XIV.

14 Cantos XVII - XVIII.

15 Canto XXXIV.

16 For an account of early Spanish attempts to conquer the Araucanians see: Smith, Edmond R., The Araucanians, Harper Brothers, New York, 1855 Google Scholar; and Abbé Don J. Ignatius Molina, The Geographical, Natural and Civil History of Chile, II, translated by “An American Gentleman,” printed by R. Alsop, Middletown, Conn., 1808.

17 Armando Braun Menéndez, El Reino de Araucania y Patagonia, Emece Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires, 1945.

18 Erna Fergusson, Chile, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1943, p. 82.

19 Canto XXXVII.

20 José Toribio Medina, Vida de Ercilla, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1948.

21 Canto I, p. 33.

22 Canto XXXII, p. 282.

23 Canto XXXIV, p. 304.