| Summary: | The Advertencias para la inteligencia de las Soledades of Andrés de Almansa y Mendoza were composed to be the first writing defending Góngora’s poem, but instead of that, they became the fuse propitiating the appearance of opposite voices (in particular Lope de Vega’s voice), beginning with them the so-called Gongorine controversy. The present work analyzes Almansa’s writing, showing its author’s lacks through the mistakes containing the text. From the analysis of the relationship between Góngora and Almansa, this article demonstrates that the poet had serious objections towards his «apocryphal correspondence», as he called Almansa due to a «long letter» written by him and received by Góngora in the summer of 1614, which is proposed to be the Advertencias in the present work. On the other hand, the coincidence of several of the arguments used by Almansa with other testimonies of the first stage of the Gongorine controversy (including the famous Carta en respuesta de la que le escribieron written by Góngora) allows to think about the existence of a common source of arguments of that Almansa would throw hand, and it would be the reason to be called for it precisely «apocryphal».
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