Zorrilla and the Peruvian Romantics (Palma, Corpancho and Ingunza)

Abstract

This essay focuses on the channels and routes of influence travelled by Hispanic Romanticism and particularly the Romanticism of José Zorrilla by examining the Peruvian writers Ricardo Palma, Manuel Nicolás Corpancho and Francisco Esteban de Ingunza, who personally dealt with the poet and received expressions of appreciation and friendship from the same. Terms are recovered from each relationship; it is proposed that one of Zorrilla’s characters, Don Carlos, the hero from the second part of the verse legend Dos Rosas y dos Rosales (1859) may have factual basis in the figure of Corpancho.