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