Note 96 — Chapter IX · WRITERS ON CHILEAN HISTORY 1600-1650.
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Medina, II, 354. In a critical note Barros Arana characterizes Bascuñán’s work as diffuse, commonplace, and heavy, when he enters upon his eternal digressions and moral philosophy, but his style takes on an air of simple animation, when he recalls certain details of domestic life or describes certain localities; and in the critic’s opinion it “ought to occupy an important place in the modest history of our colonial literature.” Introduction to Cautiverio feliz in Colección de historiadores de Chile, III.