Civilizacion Y Barbarie Life In The Argentine Republic In The Days Of The Tyrants Or Civilization And Barbarism With Particular Reference To Juan Facundo Quiroga And Jose Felix Aldao With A Biographical Sketch Of The Author By Mrs Horace Mann First American From The Third Spanish Edition

Author : Alonso de Ercilla
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Araucana written by Alonso de Ercilla and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain's colonizing of the Americas inspired a number of verse histories, the finest of them Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana. Having served as a page to Philip II from the age of 15 until sailing for Chile six years later to help subdue a rebellion among the indigenous Araucans, today's Mapuche, Ercilla returned home not only with admiration for the Indians, but with serious misgivings about their mistreatment by the Spanish. The resulting account of his experiences, composed over two decades and richly embellished with many of the adornments of classical epic, is sufficiently nuanced to be taken, on the one hand, as the Urtext of Chilean nationalism, which it remains to this day, and on the other as a glorification of Spain's imperial ambitions. Ercilla's Araucana is eminently readable, frequently engrossing, and unexpectedly moving, its author's lively intellect and ready compassion never far from view.