Francisco López de Zárate "versus" Marcial

Résumé

This article deals with the authorship of a particular text from Francisco López de Zárate’s lyric work. López de Zárate, native of Logroño and contemporary with Francisco de Quevedo (both were born around 1580), was a dramatic and epic poet who felt kinship with Lope de Vega and Góngora, of whom he was also a fervent admirer. In addition, it is also examined a hypothetical contradiction related to this same text and its connection with the personality of the poet. The original text version belongs to Marco Valerio Marcial, a satirical, epigrammatic bilbilitano widely known in the field of the Spanish Golden Age. Its title, as it is stated in the page 76 of Zárate’s own Several Poems, is “Translation of the 47th Epigram in the 10th book of Marcial”. This Zárate’s version, as well as some other outstanding ones, will be carefully analyzed.