The Critical Occhiale: Lenses, readers, and critics in the polemic regarding Marino’s L’Adone

“Alma, si ciega vas tras tus antojos”: Going Blindly through Seventeenth-Century Literature

“….-was their frequent intrusion into all kinds of editorial genres throughout the seventeenth century, sometimes drifting into the scatological, bordering on blasphemy or being full-on satire, as in the enigma of Salinas. The Sevillian literature of that century 4 , which was commercialized in the same market as the Uso de los antojos, is useful to exemplify each one of these fishing grounds and as a plausible synecdoche of what was happening at a national level (López Lorenzo 2019, 2021Peñalver Gómez 2023). Thus, for the eschatological drift we have a curious passage from the Descripción de la máscara burlesca (Becerra y Clarós 1683) that the students of the Colegio de San Hermenegildo of Seville organized in honor of St. Francis Xavier and under the pretext of celebrating the victory of the Catholic arms in the battle of Kahlenberg.…”

“…It is not unusual that in an era "de constantes superaciones sobre lo ya existente, los anteojos se confundieran con los catalejos y que, en ocasiones, los catalejos apenas se diferenciaran de los telescopios" (García Santo-Tomás 2015, p. 43). See also (Nader-Esfahani 2016, 2021.…”