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978-1-61148-496-0 • Hardback • March 2013 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
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Jason McCloskey is assistant professor of Spanish at Bucknell University. His research focuses on Renaissance artwork, classical mythology and the portrayal of exploration and piracy in early modern Hispanic poetry.
Ignacio López Alemany is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and editor of Calíope, Journal of the Society for the Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I.Myths of Power
One - Titian, Philip II, and Pagan Iconography
Anne J. Cruz
Two - Visual Eroticism, Poetic Voyeurism: Ekphrasis and the Complexities of Patronage in Góngora’s Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea
Lucia Binotti
Three - Hercules and the Statue Garden: Sansón Carrasco’s Ekphrastic and Imperial Contests in Don Quijote II.14
Frederick A. de Armas
Four - The Legend of Marus Curtius Romanus as a Sign of auctoritas in Early Modern Spain
Ignacio López Alemany
Part II.Challenges for Power
Five - Coins, Value and Trust: The Problematic of Vellón in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Culture
Elvira Vilches
Six - Tampering with Signs of Power: Juan de Palafox, Historiography, and the Limits of Heraldry
John Slater
Seven - Antonio Pérez and the Power of Treason
Ana María G. Laguna
Eight - Ius gentium and Just War: The Problem of Representation in Inca Garcilaso’s Royal Commentaries
José A. Cárdenas Bunsen
Nine - The Politics of Salvation in El Greco’s Escorial Paintings and Cervantes’s LaNumancia
E. C. Graf
Ten - Spain Succored by Religion: Titian and Lope de Vega’s La Dragontea
Jason McCloskey
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
This is a fascinating collection of essays by different authors who, by means of careful examinations of texts, shed light on the nature, status, and practice of power in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spain. . . .[T]he essays in this collection succeed in engaging the reader through their high level of scholarship on varied topics, all focused on the exercise and reception of Spanish Hapsburg power.
— Hispanic American Historical Review