Abstract

The starry sky, from the Greeks, has had a wide impact on the neo-Platonic world, but from El sueño de Escipión by Ficino and Leon Hebrew, it acquires a decisive importance for the subsequent literature by the possibility of so many relationships and correspondences and it is, moreover, favoured by the science of the time . Calderon used all known sources in mystery plays to expose a cosmology and show the dramatic and lyrical possibilities of this motif