A fly on the beloved's face: poetry, rhetoric and painting. Concerning a sonnet by Eugenio de Salazar
Abstract
This article analyzes the sonnet by Eugenio de Salazar addressed to “Una mosca que estaba picando en el rostro a su Catalina” ("A fly that was biting Catalina’s face") as a noteworthy example of the crossings of different poetic, rhetoric and pictorial traditions in the late sixteenth century. It is suggested here that Salazar's sonnet, in the light of other texts and paintings where the fly motif is found, is characterized by a particular conjunction of the Petrarchan lament, eroticism, witticism, and moralization.
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