Juan de Tassis y Peralta, Fábula de Faetón, Edición, introducción y notas de Laura Rodríguez Fernández

Villamediana's Fábula de Faetón is perhaps the most ambitious and sophisticated poem conceived within the 17th century Spanish poetic revolution headed by Luis de Góngora. Its author encrypted the complex architecture of the Baroque worldview in the hermeticism of the new language. However, his mythological fables continue to be classified as a relevant but somewhat disjointed project. This work proposes that both the structure and meaning of the poem have been partly hidden due to its transmission problems. Using the tools of textual criticism and authorial philology and thanks to the inclusion of three witnesses that had not been used in previous editions, we offer the text of its three editions devoid, as far as possible, of apocryphal interventions transmitted since the princeps (1629). This study is also a dialogue between ecdotics, gongorism and the myth of Phaethon around the concepts of difficulty and model.