“Las primeras alusiones al Descubrimiento en la poesía latina de Sevilla”, Humanismo latino y Descubrimiento. Ed. J. Gil y J.M. Maestre (Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla; Universidad de Cádiz, 1992), 167-179

This chapter traces the allusions to the Indies in the Latin poetry printed in Seville until the first third of the sixteenth century. The geographical terms used throughout these decades reflect the successive interpretations and conceptions of these lands. The poets used terms and expressions of classical authors to designate the new geographical reality, molding the events and their protagonists according to certain episodes and heroes of ancient literature. The discovery of a New World seemed less interesting than reaching the lands of the East by the West, and the Discovery is seen more as a series of bold journeys to the pursuit of gold and merchandise, and to spread the Gospel and the confines of Empire. Peter Martyr of Angleria from Milan designates those places in his Poemata, printed in Seville in 1511, as Terras del Oceano, Antipodes and Zona Torrida. In an epitaph of the Catholic king, Pedro Nunez Delgado calls "Another World" what he will call the Indies in 1521 , the "gold lands of the West" that made credible a universal empire under Charles the fith.