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The epic theory of the 16th and 17th centuries was dominated by the Poetics of Aristotle and by the model of Virgil. In spite of that, we will  argue that the Spanish epic poems that deal with the Conquista set themselves apart. The main requirements of the epic theory were temporal distance and the perfect hero; the Spanish poems, on the contrary, related recent facts and deeds, and their (real) heroes were far from being perfect. The Spanish authors found a solution in two directions:1) equating epic and history, 2) adopting the Italian model of the romanzo (Boiardo, Ariosto). Thus, two modern models, quite different from those inherited from Antiquity, appeared. However, at the end of the 16th century, doubts arose about the authenticity of the new models; this became quite evident in the poetics of Pincianos, who suspected that the novel might be superior to the epic poem. Parting from this intuition, the article ends with a reflexion −inspired by the theory of the novel of Lukacz− on the antinomy of epic and novel as the authentic expression of modernity.

Teoría de la épica en el Renacimiento y el Barroco hispanos y la épica indiana