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In Proverbios (or Centiloquio ), Santillana evokes figures like Seneca, Aristotle, and Hercules not as erudite ornament but as moral exemplars. The poet bridges past and present through aphoristic recall, using classical authority to legitimize counsel for Juan II. Here, evocation is didactic and political.

In sonnets influenced by Petrarch (via the Italian Duecento ), Santillana evokes his own emotional states. Verses like «Recuerde el alma dormida» (though often misattributed, the tone is consistent) show a poet turning inward. Memory is no longer public or classical—it is personal loss. This prefigures Garcilaso’s later lyric. evocación santillana

Santillana’s evocations range from the moral to the nostalgic, the classical to the vernacular. He does not simply reproduce the past but re-creates it as an act of cultural and emotional self-definition. In doing so, he anticipates the Renaissance while remaining rooted in medieval memoria . In Proverbios (or Centiloquio ), Santillana evokes figures