Tirant lo Blanch; a study of its authorship, principal sources and historical settingVaeth, Joseph Anthony
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Tirant lo Blanch; a study of its authorship, principal sources and historical setting
Vaeth, Joseph Anthony
Martorell, Joanot, -1468. Tirant lo Blanch
[1]Válame Dios, dijo el Cura, dando una gran voz.—Que aquí esté
Tirante el Blanco! Dádmele acá, compadre; que hago cuenta que he
hallado en él un tesoro de contento y una mina de pasatiempos. Aquí
está D. Quirieleisón de Montalbán, valeroso caballero, y su hermano
Tomás de Montalbán, y el caballero Fonseca, con la batalla que el
valiente de Tirante hizo con el alano, y las agudezas de la doncella
Placerdemivida, con los amores y embustes de la viuda Reposada, y la
señora Emperatriz, enamorada de Hipólito, su escudero. Dígoos verdad,
señor compadre, que, por su estilo es éste el mejor libro del mundo:
aquí comen los caballeros, y duermen, y mueren en sus camas, y hacen
testamento antes de su muerte, con otras cosas de que todos los demás
libros deste género carecen. Con todo eso, os digo que merecía el que
lo compuso, pues no hizo tantas necedades de industria, que le echaran
á galeras por todos los días de su vida.[2]
[1] Bless me, cried the Priest in a low voice, and is _Tirante
the White_ here? Give it to me, gossip, for I reckon that I have
found herein a treasure of delight and a mine of entertainment.
Here you have Don Qurieleison of Montalvan, the valiant cavalier,
and his brother Thomas of Montalvan, and the Knight Fonseca, with
the fight which the valiant Tirante had with the big mastiff,
and the witty conceits of the damsel Placer-de-mi-vida, and the
amours and tricks of the widow Reposada, and my Lady the Empress
in love with Hippolito, her squire. I tell you truth, good master
gossip, that this for its style is the best book in the world.
Here the Knights eat and sleep and die in their beds, and make
their wills before dying, with other things that are wanting
in all other books of this sort. For all this, I say that he
who wrote it is well-deserving; for he did not commit follies
purposely which should send him to the galleys for the term of
his life—_Don Quixote of La Mancha_, translated by Henry Edward
Watts, London, 1888.
[2] _Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha._
Edited and annotated by Francisco Rodríguez Marín, Madrid, 1911;
vol. I, chap. vi, pp. 160-163.
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