Lorenzo de las Llamosas, escritor de dos mundos y de dos siglos

Abstract

This article offers a portrait of the Peruvian writer Lorenzo de las Llamosas whose life spanned the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A man of many talents, he put his writing skills to work in several genres such as lyric poetry, prose and drama; he was also an intrepid traveller (he left Peru and travelled around most of Europe), served as a soldier and as a preceptor to the nobility. Llamosas fits perfectly into the mould of a typical lesser-known writer of the late Baroque period, though it must be acknowledged that he was able to make his way to a suitable place in the Madrid Court of Charles II.

Keywords

• courtier writer
• Colonial literature
• Llamosas Lorenzo de las