Ercilla

American  

[er-thee-lyah, -see-yah] / ɛrˈθi ljɑ, -ˈsi jɑ /

noun

1. Alonso de 1533–94, Spanish epic poet; soldier in the conquest of Chile.

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Ercilla

In a recent interview published by the Santiago newsweekly Ercilla, Frei complained that the junta's rejection of any sort of economic controls would only lead to monopoly.

From Time Magazine Archive

An intelligent and prudent man may prosper at Ercilla or at Fez.

From 1492 by Mary Johnston

If Ercilla was not, like Cervantes, present in the fight, his acquaintance with the principal actors in it makes his epic, in addition to its poetical merits, of considerable value as historical testimony.

From History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

Long before Tasso and Camoens and Ercilla, two Scotchmen had attempted to put patriotism into epic form; Barbour had written his Bruce and Blind Harry his Wallace.

From The Epic An Essay by Lascelles Abercrombie

Ercilla y Zuñiga accompanied Felipe II to England on the occasion of his marriage to Mary Tudor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various