La varia fortuna del condestable: una imagen romántica de Don Álvaro de Luna
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García Castañeda, Salvador
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Artykuł z czasopisma
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2017
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Lectura y signo: revista de literatura ISSN 1885-8597 Nº. 12, 1, 2017, pags. 171-188
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Don Álvaro de Luna (1388?-1453) became the most powerful statesman of his time, but the nobility -jealous and fearful of his power- pressured King Juan II of Castile, a weak and ungrateful man, to signhis death sentence. The circumstances of his execution, and the courage and poise in meeting his death at the scaffold sparked the imagination of Romantic authors and artists, who considered him a victim of Destiny and of capricious Fortune. In this article, I study four representative works of that period: Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío's short story «The Fate of Luna»; the Duque de Rivas's historical romance «Don Álvaro de Luna»; the historical drama Don Álvaro de Luna by Antonio Gil y Zárate; and «F. M.»'s El Suplicio de D. Álvaro de Luna, a «romance de ciego».