La Araucana

La Araucana, 1st part, editio princeps, Madrid, 1569.

La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem[1] in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile.[2] It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro).[3] It was translated into English in 1945 by Paul Thomas Manchester and Charles Maxwell Lancaster for Vanderbilt University Press.[4]

  1. ^ Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga: La Araucana (in Spanish).
  2. ^ Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Spanish soldier and poet, Encyclopædia Britannica.
  3. ^ Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Spanish soldier and poet, Encyclopædia Britannica.
  4. ^ Zuniga, Alonso de Ercilla y (2021-04-30). The Araucaniad. Vanderbilt University Press. ISBN 978-0-8265-0304-6.

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