El ingenio de la diplomacia: Saavedra Fajardo, el conde de Rebolledo y los reyes del norte
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One of the most interesting —and less studied— ways to examine to the relationship between literature and diplomacy is in the diplomats’ writings. On this occasion, and approach to the cases of Saavedra Fajardo and the Count of Rebolledo, who since the beginning has some biographical and professional similarities in common, serves as preface to the comparison between the Gothic Crown (1646) and the first part of the Danish Selvas (1655): this perspective that allows to understand the pragmatic character of the works of both poets, which is marked by the turn to the north of the spanish politics and which meaningfully uses the neogothic element for these two texts, that has to be read in dialogue whith the coetaneus context