Espanol ocurrió durante la mayor parte del siglo XVI en una época de grandes cambios y mejoramientos a la literatura: como la poesía, el teatro y la prosa. La guerra entre Italia y España desde la segunda mitad del siglo XV causó un notable intercambio cultural entre los dos países. Las obras españolas mas significas fueron publicados o traducidos en Italia como Amadís de Gaula, La Celestina, Cárcel de Amor, composiciones poéticas de Jorge Manrique, Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana. Producciones
William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, writer and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwrights of all time in the world. No other writer’s plays, such as Macbethand Romeo and Juliet, have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. He is generally considered to be both the greatest dramatist in the world, and the best poet who has written in the English language. Many
cast doubt onto the appropriateness of the Spanish conquest of the Incas. The first two articles were written by conquistadores, Pedro de Cieza de León, and Mancio Sierra de Leguízamo. They both offer a romanticized view of the Incan culture. Cieza de León tries to paint a picture of the Incas as a ideal culture that tried to avoid war at any cost, while Sierra de Leguízamo paints a picture of a trusting uncorrupted society of Indians. These views are obviously slightly skewed, because it is hard
great works. The centers of colonial rule were Mexico City, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and Bogota. Early texts were chronicles of the conquests and descriptions of these settlements. Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes can be credited with much of these writings, although other explorers contributed their findings as well. During this period, authors such as Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Bartolome de la Casas, and Antonio Vierra. This is also when the first notable mentions
The Role of Honor, Marriage, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Latin America Honor, illegitimacy and sexuality were among the most contested issues especially in the colonial Spanish America (Lavrin 10). In colonial Latin America, the concept of personal honor was more of a mental construct that was expressed through a complex set of social and personal behavioral code that was a prerequisite for acceptance in any given social setting (Lavrin 10). Sexual conduct was referred to as the touchstone of honor
Wonderful Inca Architecture with their Stone Walls Over the centuries, man has created an architecture in which not only identifies them self, but also identifies a society, a culture, and a nation. In the new world , as given call this part of the globe before colonization, cultures settled in this site were developed to the point of being able to build gigantic works. Is the case of the Incas, who developed a very functional style of public architecture that was remarkable for its advance engineering
perspective, a few common themes prevail amongst compared texts. Focusing on the theme of the journey, what it means, and what is at stake, Garcilaso de la Vega’s “The Story of Pedro Serrano” and Juan José Saer’s The Witness both touch on all these themes with great severity, dissecting the purpose of the journey and what it means to be a civilized man. Vega wrote of Pedro Serrano, a man who was shipwrecked upon a small desert island for nearly a decade. A majority of the story focuses on Serrano