La storiografia del p. Rogatis, cornucopia di miti ispanici e motivi teatrali

This paper begins a research on the work of the Jesuit Bartolomeo De Rogatis entitled Il regno de’ goti nella Spagna abbattuto e risorto, ovvero La perdita e racquisto della Spagna occupata da’ Mori spread in Italy since 1648. In it is conveyed, also from Spanish sources (in particular, the work of Miguel De Luna), a vision of Hispanic identity and cultural myths. The reading filter of De Rogatis can be subsequently found in the subjects of the booklets of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, of which we trace the corpus relative to the events of Rodrigo, the last King of the Goths.