This article seeks to introduce briefly an imagery-mythological survey present in the poetry attributed to Gregório de Matos, author from the 17th Century Brazilian, whose rich material assigned to it permeates several themes in the... more
This article seeks to introduce briefly an imagery-mythological survey present in the poetry attributed to Gregório de Matos, author from the 17th Century Brazilian, whose rich material assigned to it permeates several themes in the lyrical genre: the religious, the
love poetry or the satirical (from which the nickname "Hell’s Mouth "). Despite being an apocryphal material, and no date set, the images employed by the poet, demonstrate not only
great knowledge of rhetorical precepts from the 17th Century, as well as his job and mastery of them. This is clear when he uses different sources, such as biblical, mythological,
medieval and humanist (which sought to amalgamate them), as well as contemporary authors, especially the Spanish. In this way, we will cover, in particular, poems dealing with
the pagan wonderful. We employ, by way of illustration, pictorial and iconological images from the 17th Century iconological images that address some of the deities employed by the poet, since such images permeated the Weltanschauung of the period.
love poetry or the satirical (from which the nickname "Hell’s Mouth "). Despite being an apocryphal material, and no date set, the images employed by the poet, demonstrate not only
great knowledge of rhetorical precepts from the 17th Century, as well as his job and mastery of them. This is clear when he uses different sources, such as biblical, mythological,
medieval and humanist (which sought to amalgamate them), as well as contemporary authors, especially the Spanish. In this way, we will cover, in particular, poems dealing with
the pagan wonderful. We employ, by way of illustration, pictorial and iconological images from the 17th Century iconological images that address some of the deities employed by the poet, since such images permeated the Weltanschauung of the period.