Hernando Domínguez Camargo

Hernando Domínguez Camargo (1606 – 1651) was Colombian epic poet. A Jesuit, he probably abandoned this calling at the end of his life. His major work, the unfinished Poema Heroyco, is a long, ambitious narrative in a highly Baroque style. Quotes En tantas de la muerte liberias, Los cuerpos de esos huesos mal seguro Estudia Julio, y en su letra advierte, que son abecedarios de la muerte! Translation Julio, in those libraries of deathstudy the bodies of those bones—an assured evil;and learn from those charactersthat they form the abecedary of death! San Ignacio de Loyola (1666), Poema heroyco ('Heroic Poem of Saint Ignatius of Loyola'), Book IV, Canto Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 335 External links Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers Harrap Publishers, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2005. es:Hernando Domínguez Camargo Category:1606 births Category:1651 deaths Category:Poets Category:People from Bogotá Category:People from Tunja Category:Authors from Colombia