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GRANDEZA MEXICANA
DE BERNARDO DE BALBUENA
D a n i e l Torres
Ohio University
But even the wretched huts of the Indians lying beside the imposing
palaces of the aristocrats did not mar, in the eyes of visitors, the super-
ficial splendor of the city, and excellent poets were singing paeans, as
did Bernardo de Balbuena in his colorful La grandeza mexicana,
in praise of the colonial metropolis. (243)
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