■i'J'Z Schevill — tStudies in Cervantes. 



Ginehra. As a romance it is important not only because it is a 

 mixture of the sentimental type with that of adventure, but because 

 many a page is more or less reminiscent of the Aeneid. In fact, the 

 general testimony justifies the conclusion that the author, Caviceo, 

 looked upon the epics of Homer and Virgil as types of adventure 

 stories with whose episodes and sentiments those of his OAvn pro- 

 duction could well bear comparison. 



The little work of Juan de Segura entitled: Epistolario o processo 

 de cartas de amores, followed by Una quexa y aviso contra amor, is 

 also full of classic references, some of which are sufficiently reminis- 

 cent of VirgiP to strengthen the conviction that hardly a love and 



like; Aeneas and Dido, p. 440; Acliates, p. 542? Dido's eager attention to 

 the narrative of Aeneas, p. 8L; Geneuera's lainentation, pp. 108 and 141, : 

 Peregrino is consoled in his hardships by his fido Achate: "le fatiche, et li 

 errori hanno comraendato Vlisse: li pericoli, et naufragii celebrato Enea, 

 etc.," as though all of these works belonged to Peregrino's class of novela, 

 namely de avcntiiras, p. IIK; Dido's death, p. 1120; Camilla and Turnus, 

 p. 138; a descent into the lower world modeled on the classics, p. 150; 

 p. 176 fl'. with a partial influence of Dante's inferno; Dido and Aeneas, 

 p. 247, etc. 



' Cf. Epistolario, o 2^>''^ccsso dc Cartas de Anwrcs: con vna. carta para 

 vn amigo suyo: y una quexa y auiso contra amor. Traduzido del estilo Griego 

 en nuestro politico Castellano: por Joan de Segura. Asse auadido en esta 

 impression vna egloga: en que por subtil estilo el poeta Castellano Luis 

 Hurtado tracta del g-ualardon y premio de amor. [Alcala de Henares] 

 MDLIII; tlie grief of the heroine recalls that of Dido, in the following: 

 *'A mi cargo toda la culpa como por quien todo el mal se ha causado: que 

 si yo no os vuiera tan a vanderas desplegadas dado mi libertad: mostrando 

 OS la voluntad que os tenia; no vuierades menospreciado assi mis desuen- 

 turadas cartas . . . Mal haya la muger que por liombre alguno su 

 vida y honrra auentura como yo por vos he hecho: . . . que vistes 

 en mi para assi oluidarme? Quando fue hombre tan bien querido . . .? 

 O falso, cruel matador: dime si pensauas viendome aqui metida oluidarme: 

 porque me ordiste tan gran lazo : donde toda mi vida a tu causa encubierta 

 y con dolor estare . . . Pluguiesse a Dios aun que fuesse luego mi 

 muerte: que vn momento solo contigo me viesse, etc.," p. .31o; "qua! Dido 

 . . . a mis males & infortunios ygualara? . . . Ay de mi sin remedio 

 alguno pues otro no tengo saluo morir." And in the quexa y auiso contra 

 amor, cf. a complaint to Love: "Pues dime, que pago diste [a] aquelhi tan 

 nombrada & miserrima Dido?" p. 49; an obscure leference to the Aeneid 

 VI: "introduciendo Palinuro a Acaron, etc.," p. 60o; "parose tan triste 

 que no se Ic comparo aquel famoso rey Priamo quando a su gran Troya arder 

 veya etc.," p. 82o. 



