Fictionalizing heterodoxy by Folke Gernert

Author:Folke Gernert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2019-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Toward the end of his dissertation on vengeance, Guzmanillo retells a historical anecdote:

Siendo el duque de Orliens injuriado de otro, después que fue rey de Francia le dijeron que se vengase – pues podia – de la injuria recebida, y, volviéndose contra el que se lo aconsejaba, dijo: “No conviene al rey de Francia vengar las injurias del duque de Orliens”489.

[The Duke of Orleans hauing formerly beene iniured by one, when he was afterward King of France, he was put in minde, that hee might now be re∣uenged of the wrong he then receiued: for now it was in his power to doe it. But he, looking sowrely on him that did so aduise him, told him; it was not fit, that the King of France, should reuenge the wrongs of the Duke of Orleans.]

Just like the majority of modern editors,490 Edmond Cros offers as sources on the episode the Spanish translation of the Cortigiano of Baldassare Castiglione by Juan Boscán, and L’ore di ricreazione of Lodovico Guicciardini by Vicente de Millis Godínez491 and he sets about explaining why Mateo Alemán could have forgone the historical details –in both Italian texts, the French King is identified with Louis XII of France, who reigned from 1498 to 1515, that is at the moment in which Castiglione writes his dialogue –. Cros argues that:

On pourrait s’étonner de constater, chez Mateo Alemán, un tel manque d’intérêt pour les faits historiques; le prince dont il s’agit n’est-il pas l’adversaire de la sainte Ligue et le vainqueur de Ravenne? N’a-t-il pas été longtemps un des principaux acteurs de ces guerres cruelles qui ont ravagé l’Italie et auxquelles l’auteur du Guzmán fait allusion à la fin de son premier chapitre? Mais en dépouillant l’anecdote de toutes les circonstances qui lui donnaient la singularité, Alemán peut la proposer comme une leçon qui s’adresse à tout un chacun et qui n’est plus une leçon de politique mais une leçon de morale: il ne s’agit plus du successeur de Charles VIII mais d’un homme qui, du jour au lendemain, a changé d’état et n’a pas voulu abuser de son nouveau pouvoir.492

[One might be surprised stating in Mateo Alemán such a lack of interest in historical facts: The prince concerned isn’t he the enemy of the Holy League and the victor of Ravenna? Wasn’t he for a long time one of the main actors in these cruel wars that devastated Italy and to which the author of Guzmán alludes at the end of his first chapter? But by stripping the anecdote of all the circumstances that give it singularity, Alemán can propose it as a lesson addressed to everybody and a lesson that is not political but moral: It is no longer about the successor of Charles VIII but about a man who changed his status from one day to the next and does not want to abuse his new power.]

The observations of the French researcher seem very accurate to me, except that the one responsible for the change described

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