El tema de la ceguera en la literatura religiosa de Lope

Abstract

In baroque literature, el desengaño is a commonplace that gets a large development. El desengaño means that man realizes that everything he can see is «vanas sombras». In this article, the question of blindness in Lope de Vega's religious poetry is studied through three different aspects: first, blindness of the self in religious poetry is considered as a transformation «a lo divino» of petrarchist lover blindness. Secondly, the divine call is studied in some literary and religious texts, like Saint August Confessions, or Lope de Vega's Soliloquios. Finally, the different methods used by the Society of Jesus to finish with man's blindness (compositio loci, emblems) are analysed.