The Academia Antártica and the intelectual network of poets

From a brief account concerning the concept of Academia and imitations of it in the Renaissance, this article studies essentially the Spanish American Academia Antártica no as an entity that was circumscribed to a particular urban space (the city of Lima), as has sometimes been advanced, but rather...

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Published in:Edad de Oro
Main Author: Alvarado Teodorika, Tatiana
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.uam.es/edadoro/article/view/edadoro_2020_39_006
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Summary:From a brief account concerning the concept of Academia and imitations of it in the Renaissance, this article studies essentially the Spanish American Academia Antártica no as an entity that was circumscribed to a particular urban space (the city of Lima), as has sometimes been advanced, but rather as a poetic idea whose members and most notable poets found themselves separated by the vast geographical spaces of the Kingdom of Peru. They strove nevertheless to make these distances shorter by creating solid networks in which a flourishing lettered community was established. The detailed study of preliminary matter and other paratexts of contemporary works enables us to put forward a list of poets interrelated in their writings to such a degree that the existence of the Academia Antártica took from more on the printed page than in a physical place. The authors were of sufficient renown so as to see their verses printed in the Spanish mainland, but also highly praised by such eminent writers as Miguel de Cervantes. Partiendo de una breve reflexión sobre el concepto de Academia y sus avatares renacentistas, este artículo se centra sobre todo en la americana Academia Antártica, no ya como una entidad anclada en un espacio urbano en particular, concretamente Lima, como se venía pensando, sino como una idea poética cuyos miembros y máximos exponentes se encontraban a menudo separados por las enormes distancias geográficas del Reino del Perú, que lograron acortar al tejer unas solidas redes en las que se estableció una fecunda relación letrada. A partir del escrutinio de la materia preliminar y paratextual de obras contemporáneas se llega a establecer una nómina de poetas interrelacionados en sus escritos de tal manera que será en la letra impresa donde cobre especial forma y existencia la Academia. Los autores fueron de suficiente renombre para que sus versos no solo se imprimieran en la metrópoli, sino que fuesen encomiados en los escritos de plumas de la categoría de Miguel de Cervantes.