| Sumario: | The Renaissance poetic style, written in verse, has its roots in Horace. It represents the passing from the oral to the written meter. One of the few examples of the Horatian style written by colonial New World poets is that of a Peruvian woman known only by her literary name, Amarilis. She gave herself this name in a poetic letter which was published in 1621 under the title "Amarilis a Belardo." This letter broke with the traditional Horatian style of expressing masculine friendship as the author expresses her intellectual and religious love for the recipient, Lope de Vega. The letter also has structural innovations. It has 335 verses, arranged in 19 strophes, and is written in an Italian lyric meter.
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