La humilde caña: fortuna de un motivo emblemático en Lope de Vega

This article analyzes the iconography of Lope’s portrait in the first edition of the Arcadia (1598) in the light of two symbols that constantly reappear in his work and that characterize his persona up to the years when he wrote his romances de senectute: on the one hand, the image of envy pestering geniuses; on the other hand, his response, the image of the humble reed.