Three Notes about Neoplatonic Philosophy of Light in Fray Luis de Leon's Cancion al nacimiento de la hija del marques de Alcanices

Fray Luis de Leon's poem dedicated to marques of Alcanices's daughter is usually understood as a minor, unrelevant poem, compared to the greatest poems of his production. A study of the poem from the point of view of the "poetics of the light" typical of ficinian neoplatonism - the christianization of certain pagan motifs, as Apolo; the influence of certain planets; the relationship between body and soul-emphasize that the composition, far from being an "amusement", reproduces the same internal logic that stands his greatest poems, since it keeps a deep relationship with neoplatonic doctrine diffused through all European Renaissance.