VULCAN AND VENUS: TWO BURLESQUE FABLES BY JUAN DE LA PENA CALDERON (1767) AND FRANCISCO NIETO DE MOLINA (1771). STUDY AND EDITION

The present article rescues two burlesque epilios of the second half of the 18th century, one of them being collected in a print by Juan de la Pe & ntilde;a Calderon (Fabula burlesca de Vulcano y Venus, Madrid, Antonio Munoz del Valle / Antonio del Castillo y Jose Matias Escribano, 1767) and the other one in a manuscript that has been attributed to the author from Cadiz Francisco Nieto de Molina (Fabula de Vulcano y Venus, BNE, MSS/4046, f. 80-89, 1771). Within both of them, the myth of the god of fire and the goddess of beauty is updated as a satire against the macaronis. The preliminary study includes bio-bibliographical information about these poets and a search of their models which, in turn, demonstrate the filiation between the two testimonies.