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Arauco Domado

Lot 244
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 244 | Arauco Domado
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Pedro de OÑA (1570-1643). Arauco Domado. Compuesto por el Licenciado Pedro de Oña, Natural de Lose Infantes de Engol en Chile. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1605.

The first epic poem written in Peru, from the press of the first printer of Don Quixote. It was first printed in Lima in 1596; that edition is not recorded at auction by RBH. The author, Pedro de Oña, was born in Chile to Spanish parents but spent much of his life in Peru, where he became a part of the circle of García Hurtado de Mendoza. Mendoza had been a leader in the brutal and long-running Arauco War between the Spanish and the Mapuche, and commissioned Oña to write the present work as a rebuttal to Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana, a popular epic about the war which does not flatter Mendoza. Arauco Domado is written in the style of the Aeneid, presenting the events of the war—which had the highest number of Spanish casualties of all the New World conflicts—through an idealized, Classicizing lens which lionizes the author’s patron.

Although a second part is promised at the close of the present volume, none was ever published. The realistic descriptions of violence and sensational accounts of Mapuche customs offended many, including the Bishop of Lima, and the book was banned. According to Sabin, "its historical value is greater than its literary merit; and the student must refer to the stanzas of "Arauco Domado" (fortunately unembellished by a brilliant imagination) for many details of the conquest and settlement of Chili." The present copy, printed in Madrid by Cuesta, is the only record of this Spanish edition at auction. Sabin 57301; Medina BHC 27; Palau 201617; Salva 830.

Octavo (142 x 92mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, smaller wood- and metalcut ornaments and initials (toning and soiling, some shoulder notes trimmed, light dampstain, one leaf supplied, 2 small tears without loss). 19th-century red sheep gilt, edges sprinkled red. Provenance: likely ownership inscription on title effaced at an early date and other marginalia throughout, some trimmed – "M.A.I.E." (monogram at foot of title page and spine in ink) – Jose M. Rodriguez (Bibliotheca Chizigonana bookplate dated 1938) – Kenneth Rapoport (bookplate).
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