Miguel Cervantes Saavedra (de)

The Galatea is usually classified as a book of pastors or a pastoral novel. The novel has a complex structure. On the one hand there is the arcadia, or the ameno place, where conversations, songs and debates about love take place; on the other, there are a number of novels inserted that intertwine with the pastoralist lines.

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Work summit that bases the modern novel

The deceits of the Teodosia and Leocadia maidens make up an intrigue with pastoral and technical themes of the Byzantine novel. They are disguised as men (a resource widely used in the novels and theatre of the time), they go after their love until they get married to them.

Diego Cortado and Pedro del Rincón have escaped from home and march along the way from Toledo to Andalusia, which is where they know each other, will enter into friendship and begin their misfortunes.

Two knights of students find on the banks of the river Tormes, a child of about eleven, called Tomás, who intended to find in Salamanca a master who in exchange for his work gave him studies; a proposal that students willingly accept.

First of the "exemplary novels," the one that opens the volume of 1613, to begin by reflecting this concern of "to show with property a slime." Social disatino, in this case, because in the Spain of then the love relationship between a courtier gentleman and a gypsy girl was unthinkable. Although it was just as unthinkable to find a virtuous gypsy with exemplary behavior.

The conversation between two dogs, called Cipion and Berganza, who keep the aforementioned Hospital of the Resurrection of Valladolid, on whose site today is the Mantilla House. When they have acquired the power to speak during the nights, Berganza decides to tell Cipion his experiences with different masters, going through places like Seville, Montilla (Córdoba) and Granada, until they reach Valladolid.

In the illustrious mop, two young men are torn to court the very beautiful young woman of an inn. One achieves its purpose, the other does not and is humiliated by a series of children who yell at him on the street and follow him everywhere.

An English gentleman takes from Cadiz to his country, as a destitute of war, a maiden (Isabela), who is educated as a daughter, by him and by his wife. It was of such exceptional beauty and discretion that the son of the two English lords (Ricaredo) fell in love with her and asked her parents for a wife.

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It is a comedy of captives or chivalry comedy of Moorish environment and epic features work by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.1 It was printed as the first of its eight comedies and eight new months never represented (1615). It is usually related to a journey that Cervantes made to Oran as a spy in 1581.

The divorce judge is a comedy. This work was written during the Baroque and coincided with the Golden Century (1554-1681).