Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ducat, Spanish Golden Age, Metafiction
8 Jan 2016
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Clc1020: (not called a novel until the 18th century) La historia del ingenioso hildaglo don quixote de la mancha. The history of the ingenious country squire don quixote de la mancha. 1508: amadis of gaul published (chivalric romance) 1556: lazarillo de tormes (picaresque novel) (picaro) Important dates that prepare for the baroque world: 1545-1563: council of trent (launches counter-reformation to combat. 1571: battle of lepanto (cervantes wounded there: man of armas y letras) 1588: spanish armada defeated by england: cervantes is a man of arms and letters, this is also the time of a power spanish army, the invisible spanish armada got destroyed by england, and went bankrupt. Adventreus (from ad + venturus that which is to come) 4th of 7 children, born near madrid; father an intinerant apothecary. Father moved family to madrid when phillip ii made it capital (1561) Sept 1569 warrant for arrest, cervantes escaped to rome.
