Hernando Domínguez Camargo

Hernando Domínguez Camargo (1606 – 1651) was Colombian epic poet. A Jesuit, he probably abandoned this calling at the end of his life. His major work, the unfinished Poema Heroyco, is a long, ambitious narrative in a highly Baroque style.

Quotes

• En tantas de la muerte liberias,
  Los cuerpos de esos huesos mal seguro
  Estudia Julio, y en su letra advierte,
  que son abecedarios de la muerte!

Translation

• Julio, in those libraries of death
  study the bodies of those bones—an assured evil;
  and learn from those characters
  that they form the abecedary of death!
  • San Ignacio de Loyola (1666), Poema heroyco ('Heroic Poem of Saint Ignatius of Loyola'), Book IV, Canto
  • Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 335

External links

• Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers Harrap Publishers, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2005.