Who were the authors of the Spanish Golden Age?

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An extraordinary flowering of poetry, drama and narrative occurred in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a phenomenon known as the Spanish Golden Age. This period coincided with the reigns of Charles V and Philip II and the travel of settlers who consolidated the power of Spain in America. In poetry stood Garcilaso de la Vega and authors such as St. John of the Cross, Fray Luis de Leon and St. Teresa of Avila, known as mystics. The lyrics culterano, characterized by a complex language with a predominance of hyperbole and metaphor, have a high exponent in the poet Luis de Gongora y Argote. Another great poet of this period, as opposed to culteranismo Gongora was Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, who adhered to the concept, a prose in clear language that mattered and more interested in substantive form. The theater, which would stand out for having a national character, had playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Pedro Calderon de la Barca. In the novel there are different genres, such as the pastoral novel, the cavalry, the Moorish and the picaresque. In this sense stood the figure of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who cultivated all genres of fiction.

What are the chronicles Indies?

During the Spanish Golden Century first appeared travel-related works to the new continent: Chronicles of the Indies calls. Prominent among them are the letters of Hernán Cortés, The Diary of Christopher Columbus and the General and Natural History of the Indies, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.

The most important work of fiction Castilian was the ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, was edited 16 times in his lifetime and was translated into over 60 languages.

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