Laughter in the Poetry of Francisco Álvarez de Velasco y Zorrilla

Rhythmica sacra, moral y laudatoria [Sacred, moral and laudatory rhythmics] (1703), by Álvarez de Velasco y Zorrilla, is a unique Neogranadian document that studies the diverse expressions of laughter in Colonial poetry. Firstly, we show the exclusion of laughter in the “high culture”, and the conse...

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