About “La Araucana”

La Araucana is a 16th-century Spanish epic poem written by Alonso de Ercilla, focusing on the Spanish conquest of Chile. It holds the status of a national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and is regarded as one of the key works of the Spanish Golden Age. The poem was translated into English in 1945 by Paul Thomas Manchester and Charles Maxwell Lancaster for Vanderbilt University Press. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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1569
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1945 · ISBN 9780826518835
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