Exemplary Novellas by Cervantes

Author:Cervantes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781624665004
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-08T00:00:00+00:00

1. “Here you have your excellent chicken, pigeons, cured ham, and sausage.” Transliterated into modern Italian, the menu items—familiar to any present-day traveler in Italy or any frequenter of Italian restaurants—would read: pollastri, piccioni, prosciutto, salcicie.

2. Before the reforms instituted by the Council of Trent, which imposed, among other modifications to the sacrament of marriage, a stricter certification of wedlock, Catholic doctrine determined that matrimony was principally defined by the mutual consent of the partners. Pushed to its extreme, as it often was in literature, and with some frequency in real life, this consensual definition of marriage emphasized that a matrimonial bond was created from the moment the partners exchanged vows. Sexual intercourse between them consummated the relationship. Parental permission and the ceremonial involvement of the Church were preferable but not essential. Under such circumstances, betrothal—minimally defined as the exchange of vows, with or without witnesses or the benefit of clergy—was tantamount to marriage, especially if doubly confirmed by sexual relations between the partners. Hence the frequent legal and literary theme of elopement and secret marriage in certain popular genres, like the chivalric romances. See Introduction: Generalities, “Historical and Cultural Background”: Brundage (325–27; 331–46) and Harney (112–17).

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