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Julio Vélez-Sainz, El Parnaso español: Canon, mecenazgo y propaganda en la poesía del Siglo de Oro. Madrid: Visor Libros, 2006. 237 pp.
The thesis of this well-researched book is that the allegorical mythology of Parnassus, Apollo, and the Muses, an apparatus that since the Romantic movement has seemed to be largely meaningless, ought to be seen by the modern historian of literature as in fact meaningful in many ways for our understanding of early modern poetry in Spain and of how Renaissance and Baroque readers and writers thought about that poetry. The author traces the cultural history of Parnassus from Greece to...