Romance endecasilabo
Subtitle: ¡Quanto se engaña la ambicion humana que funda su gandeza y adelanto en los infames, perfidos proyectos que al hombre arrastran al mayor desbarro!
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1807
Place of publication: Mexico?
Language: spa
Subjects: Spanish Political poetry; Peninsular War, 1807-1814; Poetry
Other titles: Quanto se engaña la ambicion humana que funda su gandeza y adelanto en los infames, perfidos proyectos que al hombre arrastran al mayor desbarro!
Notes: Title from caption and first stanza of poem.

Place of publication suggested from the line of poetry on p. [1] reading "¿Quein os huberia dicho, Mexicanos, que el hëroe celebrado de la Francia al fin padeceria tan gran estrago?" and mention of the Virgen of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico, on p. 8.

Possible dates of publication suggested from the theme of the poem which is the defense of the Spanish kingdom and King Ferdinand from the invasions of Napoleon during the peninsular war which lasted from 1807 to 1814.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound into modern paper wrappers.

John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. inscription at foot of p. [1] reading: Enviado por Snra. en 30 noviembre 1891.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Kenyon Fund.