An example of Vergil’s influence in the Persiles: the invention of Tile, hero’s hometown
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https://doi.org/10.3989/rfe.2014.10Keywords:
Cervantine Tile, Vergil’s ultima Thule, reminiscence / hipotext, literary quotations, “context’s reelaboration”, reelaboration’s aesthetic function, classical traditionAbstract
At the end of Persiles’ Book IV, Cervantes discovers identity and origin of the heroes, who have been known till then as Periandro and Auristela. According with this intention, the invention of a Nordic place, as Tile —Hero’s hometown—, has a special importance, because of its Vergilian roots on Thule’s imaginary, which appears in Georgics, I, vv. 29-31. A Vergil’s quotation, which is used by Serafido, when he explains what and where Tile is, gives us the evidence. Our purpose is studying the Cervantine reelaboration of such quotation and its aesthetic function in the romance.
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