The academies as a social celebration of the Baroque: Their reflection in Antonio Enriquez Gomez

Abstract

Academias morales de las musas (1642) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez is one of those miscellaneous works that make use of academia’s narrative artifice in order to compile poems, plays and other loose works. They are articulated upon the concurrence of several interlocutors who expound their ideas and feelings through compositions with different degrees of elaboration. In those verses, Antonio Enríquez Gómez pours his concerns about a life shaken by the persecution he suffered at the hands of the Inquisition because of his crypto-Judaism. Although he covers diverse themes, he is mainly concerned with providing moral reflections, and with the pessimist recreation of neo-stoic topics.