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adventure story could well be written at this epocli without some 

 indebtedness to situations or sentiments in tbe Aeneid.^ 



A work in prose fiction of peculiar interest in- the study of 

 Cervantes is, as has been indicated in previous articles, Nunez de 

 Reinoso's Clareo y Florisea. Menendez y Pelayo speaks of one 

 episode, the descent into the inferno, ch. xxxi, as "llena de reminis- 

 cencias del libro sexto de la Eneida"- to which can be added Isea's 

 dream, ch. xxi, since she herself compares it with that of Aeneas, 

 who in his dream converses with Hector's ghost (II, v. 268 i¥.).^ 

 Thus it is evident, that after exhausting his chief source, the amorosi 

 ragionamenti of Dolce, JSTiiiiez de Keinoso had recourse to the 



^ In another early novela, Diego de San Pedro's Cat-eel de Amor (Sevilla, 

 1492), there is a chapter which proves "por enxemplos la bondad de las 

 mugeres (p. 78, of "Bibliotheca liispanica," Vol. XV, Madrid, 1904). 

 Virgil's Camilla gets an honorable mention, p. 82, while Dido, known perhaps 

 to Diego de San Pedro only as the heroine of the Aenoid, and not as the 

 chaste matron so frequently defended against calumny, is left out; cf. also 

 the later version of the Gelestina, act xvi : "Venus, Madre de Eneas." Other 

 works of fiction of the type of the Gelestina refer familiarly to the Aeneid. 

 Thus in the Thehayda (1521), cf. "Coleccion de Libros espaQoles raros, etc.," 

 Vol. XXII (Madrid, 1894), p. 274, Berintho says to Menedemo : "Veote estar, 

 Menedemo, vacilando y envolviendo en tu anima tantas cosas, como el 

 piadoso Eneas, etc."; in the Comedia Seraphina (1521), Coleccion de 

 Libros espailoles, etc.," Vol. V (Madrid, 1873), p. 373 fF. ; '"en verdad tan 

 atordido estoy de lo que me dices, como el piadoso Eneas oyendo la respuesta 

 de Apolo quando tentO de abaxar a la ribera donde hallo vagando al buen 

 Palinuro, etc;" reference to "el gran Mantuano," p. 396; in the Comedia 

 Selvagia (1554), cf. same volume, p. 8, the author says of Love: "Tambien 

 ;Mar6n, entre los latinos poetas fenix tinieo, todo el quarto libro de su 

 Eneida en decir sus inicuos hechos ocupo;" and p. 136 there is a reference 

 to the sixth book of the Aeneid: " i quien es esta fantasma? Por ventura 

 el fuerte Eneas, . . . con la anciana Sibilla, quieren en los infiernos 

 . . . entrar la segunda vez? etc." 



- Origenes, etc., op. cit., p. cccxlvi; cf. also, Rohde, op. cit., on descents 

 into Hades as episodes in mediaeval literature, p. 279; Hertziana (Munich 

 library), op. cit., box 22, "Sagen," under "Unterirdische Wanderungen" ; 

 (Juevedo, Ohras, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 307: "las Zahurdas de Pluton, (Sueuo del 

 Infierno ) " reads in part like a travesty on the sixth book of the Aeneid 

 and of Dante's Inferno; "doy fe de que en todo el infierno no hay arbol 

 ninguno, etc." In the Galatea, Ohras, op. cit., there is mention made of 

 Aeneas and his descent into the inferno, p. 57, col. 1. 



^ Cf. also the dream of Chapter xxi.x, p. 464, "Novelistas anteriores a 

 Cervantes" ( Rivadeneyra ) . 



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