Ercilla y Zuñiga, a Spanish poet, born at Madrid; took part in the war of the Spaniards with the Araucos in Chile, which he celebrated in an epic of no small merit called “La Araucana”; he ended his days in poverty (1553‒1595).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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