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This paper opens with an excursus on Spanish authors that practise Hispano-ltalian heteroglossia in their works during Pre- and Early Renaissance. In the Hispano-ltalian field, the Italian and bilingual compositions of Francisco de Figueroa play an absolute important role for the description of the event. The essay focuses on the analysis of the distinctive literary forms that heteroglossia —which in this case the author defines “literary biglossia"— takes in the Spanish poet's Italian works in relation to his own literary production in Spanish and to the Petrarchan and Italian tradition. In fact, next to writers that occasionally adopt the “other language" of the “other culture", the “biglossia" is the modality of those fully belonging to both languages and both cultures, since they experiment with forms, whether or not innovative, that mark a milestone in the development of those cultures. Different levels of analysis from metrics to meaning offer a preferential view of this anomalous artistic process, searching for the deep reasons behind a great poet's choice to write in another language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like other Baroque poets, Góngora in his Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea chooses one of his characters to represent his art and to represent himself as a poet. The figure of the monstruous giant Polyphemus --the ironic and desacralizing symbol of Góngora's art-- enters in contrast with other figures, like Apollo and Orpheus- themselves symbols of the art of Lope- that at first glance might seem more appropriate for self-aggrandizement. This paper focuses specifically on the cultural history of the pan flute to demonstrate the appropriateness of Góngora's choice of this instrument for his character Polyphemus, at the same time highlighting the irony of the author's own affirmation that he uses the pan flute to sing his poem. By means of this instrument, the poet identifies himself with the character: the monstrosity of Polyphemus, the exaggeration of his musical instrument, and the brutality of his voice become a mirror --perhaps an inverted, although ultimately amusing and parodical one-- of the poetic project of the Cordoban. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]