SOURCE: Trivison, Mary Louise. “A Pilgrim Poem of the Marqués de Santillana: Resumé of Medieval Marian Lyric.” In Estudios Alfonsinos Y Otros Escritos, edited by Nicolás Toscano Liria, pp. 246-53. New York: National Endowment for the Humanities/National Hispanic Foundation for the Humanities, 1991.

In the following essay, Trivison relates Santillana's poem “Dominosa gloriosa” to lyric tradition in Spain.

Enroute to his castle as he travelled from battle with the Moors, fighting on behalf of Henry IV of Castile, the Marqués de Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, stopped at the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Estremadura to thank her for Castile's victory, for her protection in battle, and to pay homage to her in his verse. The poem which Santillana wrote on this occasion commemorates the battle, the pilgrimage and the Virgin Mary's protection. The year was 1445, just three years before his...