Apuntes sobre los epigramas del humanista granadino Juan Latino

Abstract

This paper describes the epigrams of Juan Latino, a black poet and formen slave, who lived in Granada during the Renaissance under the patronage of the House of Cordoba, Dukes of Sessa an descendands of Gran Capitán. The characteristics and content of the different extracts are briefly analized and this poetry is then related to the ltalian and Spanish poetry, of the same genre and period.