La Araucana
Epic poem of the Spanish conquest of Chile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem[1] in Spanish by Alonso de Ercilla, about the Spanish Conquest of Chile.[2] It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro).[3] It was translated into English in 1945 by Paul Thomas Manchester and Charles Maxwell Lancaster for Vanderbilt University Press.[4]
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