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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Farmer, Julia

Titel

The Experience of Exile in Garcilaso's Second Eclogue

Ist Teil von

• Bulletin of Hispanic studies (Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : 1996), 2011-05, Vol.88 (2), p.161

Ort / Verlag

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

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• [...]as Goodwyn notes, the entire body of evidence on which scholars for so long have based their claims regarding Freire consists of one statement in the error-ridden Gayangos manuscript in the Biblioteca Nacional (1978: 5).1 As a result of these findings, in 1978 Goodwyn proposed shifting the emphasis in Garcilaso's poetry from a failed amorous relationship that likely did not even exist to a traumatic event in the poet's life of which there can be no doubt: his exile by Charles V. Carroll Johnson later took up Goodwyn's call for a move away from Isabel Freire-oriented criticism in an article in which he concluded that 'Giving up Isabel deprives us of more than one kind of illusion, but it also frees us to read Garcilaso as a strikingly modern poet whose obsessive theme is poetry itself and his relation to other poets' (1989: 304). [...]Carmen Vaquero (1996: 129) has documented his participation in 1519 in an armed protest at the Hospital de la Visitación in Toledo, an early manifestation of his rebellious nature that brought his first exile from the city. [...]though historians had long tended to contrast the poet with his more 'rebellious' brother Pedro, who was often credited with speaking out against Charles at the infamous Cortes de Santiago, Frank Goodwyn has shown that it was not Pedro but rather Garcilaso himself who spoke in opposition to the subsidies demanded by Charles. [...]if we take the poem as a comment on Garcilaso's courtly isolation, these lines gain significance, for more than one familial legend traced Garcilaso's genealogical roots to those of Charles V. First, Garcilaso's mother, Doña Sancha de Guzmán, traced her ancestors to members of the royal families of Castile and Portugal. [...]a legend described in a poem by Miguel de Silveira portrays the Guzmán family as descending from the German emperors (Fernández de Navarrete 1850: 143). [...]what we find as the Eclogue progresses are references not to the Duke and the poet, as one might expect given their close relationship and the initial verses cited above, but rather a portrayal of the bond between the Duke and Charles V. For example, the Duke's arrival in Regensburg is described as follows: