El Panegírico al duque de Lerma. Trascendencia de un modelo gongorino (1617-1705)

The appearance in manuscript form of the Panegírico al duque de Lerma in the first quarter of the 17thcenturymarks the resurgence of an old genr—poetic eulogy of the powerful. Inspired by the epideictic verses of Claudian, starting in 1629 the Gongorian model prompted a series of imitations among cultist authors: the Panegyric on the Duke of Alcalá, viceroy of Naples (1629) by Salcedo Coronel; the Panegyric on Taddeo Barberini, prince of Palestrina (1631) by Gabriel del Corral; the Panegyric portrait of Charles of Austria (1633) by Gabriel Bocángel; the Panegyric on the Admiral of Castile (1638) by Calderón de la Barca; the Panegyric on the birth of the Marquis of Montalbán (1650) by Francisco de Trillo y Figueroa, and the Short panegyric on Louis XIV (1705) by Lorenzo de las Llamosas. The study generally highlights the rhetorical and poetic keys to these variations on a now little-known laudatory genre, and the Gongorian imitatio practised by the six authors listed. On a socio-cultural level, the article seeks to draw attention to the value of literary texts which sometimes appear in connection with certain diplomatic practices