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82<br />

Inmaculada Osuna<br />

ABsTRACT:<br />

Avisos para la muerte (1634), compiled by Luis Ramírez de Arellano, gathers,<br />

along with other complementary materials (among these, two prayers written<br />

in verse for before confession and before communion, and an act of contrition<br />

in prose), thirty poems that are presented as models for prayers addressed to<br />

a crucified Christ in the moment of his death. These poems emerge from a<br />

group initiative in which notable poets from the Madrid court took part, poets<br />

such as Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, José de Pellicer, José de<br />

Valdivielso, Luis Vélez de Guevara, Juan Pérez de Montalbán and Francisco<br />

de Rojas Zorrilla. My article examines the social context in which this poetic<br />

collection is born, the composition of the book, its successful publishing history<br />

throughout two centuries as well as the reiterative representation in the poems<br />

of particular meditatio mortis topics (the staging of agony; the expression of<br />

repentance, love for Christ and hope for his mercy; and the contemplation of<br />

Christ’s body on the cross).

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