EPINICIOS GRATULATORIOS AL CONDE DE GALVE COLONIAL VASSALAGE, NOVOHISPANIC PRIDE AND POETRY

This paper circumscribes Epinicios Gratulatorios within the textual corpus written during the Nine Years’ War that simultaneously confirms their vassalage to Spain and demonstrates a Novohispanic pride. This merging can be appreciated in all the silvers and sonnets that commemorate Gaspar de la Cerda’s triumph. In Epinicios, the colonial landscape denatures the European encomiastic tradition. The Pythoness, Daphne, Thetis, Mars, among others, are adapted to the “Novohispanic peculiarities” making a difference between the self and the other.