The Latin Classics into the Poetry of Garcilaso de la Vega: The Imitatio as Poetic Strategy
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The present paper propose to illustrate through some biographical notes about Garcilaso de la Vega, the circumstances that led him know and imitate the classics Latin authors in his poetries. Among those who most enjoyed his imitation were Virgil, Horace and Ovid. How many imitations were found of these authors is specified, but the mentions of gods and mythological characters are multiple which made me, by way of conclusion, to complete by order alphabetic a list of them.
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