Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Exemplary Novels of Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra: To Which Are Added El Buscapie, or the Serpent, And, La Tia Fingida, or the Pretended Aunt
Besides the Novelas Exemplares, two other little wox attributed to Cervantes, are included in the present vollll These are El Buscapie and The Pretended Aunt. 'l latter is the story of an adventure which really occurred Salamanca, in 1575. It was never printed by its author, 1 was found, along with his Rinconete and Cortadillo, i manuscript collection of stories and tri?es made, 1606 - 10, the amusement of the Archbishop of Seville, and was publisl in Berlin, 1818, by the celebrated Greek scholar F. A. W' from a copy procured by the Prussian ambassador in Spa The authenticity of the other piece, El Buscapie, is not well established, and is strongly contested by Ticknor, w however, admits that it is a pleasant, witty tri?e, and she in many parts much lively talent, a remarkable familiar with the works of Cervantes, and a hardly less remarka familiarity with the literature of the period when Carvan lived. For the manner in which the alleged discovery of 1 manuscript of El Buscapie was made, we refer to translation of the Spanish editor's preface.
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