Controversies between writers are a key factor of the building of the Republic of Letters

Controversies between writers are a key factor of the building of the Republic of Letters. The example studied falls within the field of the second half of the seventeenth century poetry in Seville. The dispute happened after the publication of the "Templo panegirico" by Fernando de la Torre Farfan (1663). The rivals' arguments allow us to carry out research into the mentality and centers of interest of the town's learned minority, within the context of its action in the institutions that govern it.