f “Un lamento por Aquiles en el Códice de Azagra”

In the Códice de Azagra, one of the most important Hispanic manuscripts in Medieval Literature, we can find a planctus, a lament poem entitled Versi Acilli, where a woman mourns the death of Achilles. This study will try, on the one hand, to establish who is the crying woman, that is to say, the lament lyric voice, and, on the other hand, to analyse the structure of the poem such as the influence of other literary genres we notice in different elements (words and expressions) which belong to epitaphium, elegiac or epic poetry. Finally, I will show the connection between Versi Acilli and any other contents of the Códice de Azagra, like some African school writers— Verecundo de Junca, Draconcio, Nemesiano and some poems in the Anthologia Latina (Epistula Didonis ad Eneam, Pervigillium Veneris) that are not in the Códice— and other lament poems of some non- African writers like Eugenio de Toledo or Venancio Fortunato.