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Definition of Ercilla
1. Noun. A genus of evergreen climbers.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Phytolaccaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Pokeweed Family
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ercilla
Literary usage of Ercilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1863)
"Its author, whose personal character is impressed on every part of his poem, was
Alonso de Ercilla, third son of a gentleman of ..."
2. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1873)
"22718 First edition containing the first part only. Ercilla Y ZUNIGA. La Araucana.
... Ercilla Y ZUNIGA. Primo y Segunda Parte de la Araucana. ..."
3. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"While in London Ercilla obtained permission to join a Spanish expedition against
the revolted Arauca- nians of Chili. He bore a prominent part in the ..."
4. Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1827)
"Don Alonzo dc Ercilla was the author of the Araucana ; a poem which has been
sometimes cited ... Ercilla. however, has no greater pretensions than the rest, ..."
5. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1887)
"Raynouard observes that Ercilla has taken Ariosto as his model, especially in
the opening of his cantos. But the long digressions and episodes of the ..."
6. Cosmos: Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, Elizabeth Juliana Leeves Sabine (1849)
"But in the whole Epic of the Araucana of Don Alonso de Ercilla, the immediate
presence of ... The excessive praise which Cervantes bestows on Ercilla, ..."
7. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"While in London Ercilla obtained permission to ... Ercilla is known by his poem
La Araucana, which is regarded as the best of the Spanish epics. ..."
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