04 August 2025

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In 1612 Góngora wrote the opening lines of his first Solitude;

Era del año la estación florida

en que el mentido robador de Europa

(media luna las armas de su frente),

y el Sol todo los rayos de su pelo,

luciente honor del cielo,

en campos de zafiro pace estrellas


Did Góngora predict Brexit and the politician who executed it, similar to what Nostradamus transmitted one century earlier?

No.


Some academics argue that Góngora, in his Soledades, mentions the expulsion of the Moriscos in the early 1600s. 

They were moved to nomans' land in north Africa. Most returned to the mainland and pretended to be Christians. A new culture was born.

What some academics intend to argue is that Góngora inserted twentieth-century issues into the text (about minority groups, and underdogs) in order to attract todays students' attention. This is unlikely. (What Góngora wrote about is people's behavior in relation to nature.)

Góngora added a few dozen lines to the second Solitude to present a finished product to the Duke, not to lead the reader back to the Dedication (in which he describes the nearby Vía de la Plata and the Duke's brave hunting activities).