Resumen de An Erotic Jousting Poem by Antonio de Velasco and Fadrique Enríquez: Àngela de Santàngel, her Suitors, and her Presence in the Carajicomedia
I discuss an exchange of verses between Antonio de Velasco and his cousin Fadrique Enríquez, Admiral of Castile, published in the 1514 edition of the Cancionero general, concerning an erotic joust between a court lady and her six suitors who did not turn up to participate in the joust. This poem has already been analysed by Ian Macpherson, but I take his analysis further and identify the lady and her sixth suitor and offer a more exact timeframe for its composition. I also identify this lady as one of the court ladies satirised as a prostitute in the anonymous and highly obscene Carajicomedia and discuss her Jewish converso relatives.
