Lo bucólico y lo épico en el poema de Fernando de Valverde: una Virgen pastora y guerrera en tierras peruanas

Abstract

The Augustinian friar Fernando de Valverde’s sacred poem, Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana del Perú, is a composition dedicated to the Virgin of Copacabana that has received little critical attention and is thus less well known than other contemporary poetic works, such as those written by Alonso Ramos Gavilán or Antonio de la Calancha. It is a rather special poem not only because it includes, in its early pages, the first signed engraving from vice-royal Peru, but also because of the hybrid nature of its composition. The present work seeks to set out some characteristics that allow us to identify bucolic and epic elements that can be found in this religious poem.