Knightly Motifs in Pedro de Oña’s El vasauro: The Loving Requirement and the Penance of Love

Abstract

This article studies two motives of chivalry (the requirement of love and the penance of love) in El vasauro, a poem by Pedro de Oña. It seeks to identify and analyze the motives that characterized chivalric narrative in a work composed in the Viceroyalty of Peru in 1635, when the editorial decline of chivalric romances began. Some significant elements shared with the Spanish pastoral narrative are also highlighted.