Una tierra, un Señor y una dama: genealogía y heterodoxia en la "Comedia Jacinta" de Bartolomé de Torres Naharro

Abstract

This article shows how Bartolomé de Torres Naharro presents in his Comedia Jacinta a number of characters, who revisit, through their origins and heterodoxical beliefs, the motif of Noah’s three sons.Through the reconstruction of the peninsular and European reception of the topos, Torres maintains that Jacinto did descend from Japhet via Magog, father of the Goths; that the Roman Jew Phenicio did descend from Cham via his son Phenicio; and that the Spanish convert Precioso did represent the sons of Sem.The origins and beliefs of the three characters exalt the union of the peoples of the world and represent a praise of “Divina,” the recipient of the festivities celebrated in the play. Phenicio, Precioso and Jacinto recognize Divina’s absolute reign over men. The heterodoxical origins of the characters is clearly related to the final intention of the play, the praise of women