Schevill — Studies in Cervantes. 515 



Aeneid. The incident is dragged into tlie narrative of the Persiles 

 quite irrelevantly, but a pathetic note is added thereby to suit the 

 sentimental taste of contemporary readers. Then there is the poetic 

 figure of Palinurus, the pilot of Aeneas's fleet, the star-gazer and 

 weather prophet, who is mentioned in Don Quixote and whose part 

 might seem to be faintly reflected in similar situations in the Per- 

 siles.^ Periandro watches the heavens at sea while the others sleep ; 

 Mauricio, too, is a star-gazer, though he is more of an astrologer 

 than pilot." 



Finally, some of the very general features of Virgil's epic romance 

 of adventure are recalled by the manner of the Persiles; their 

 occasional resemblance to the machinery of Heliodorus will also be 

 apparent at once, and though the latter's influence may have been 

 dominant, the Aeneid played no insignificant part in affecting the 

 general character of the novel of Cervantes. The parallels to illus- 

 trate this are grouped together at the close of the article." By 

 comparing them in turn with those from Heliodorus in the previous 

 article, students of fiction may possibly feel inclined to believe with 

 me that the influence of Virgil upon Heliodorus also is worthy of 

 more consideration than has hitherto been accorded it. 



The marked influence which was exerted upon the mind of Cer- 

 vantes by one of the important elements in the literary culture of 



dieronle todos el ultimo vale, etc." p. 570, col. 2: "quiso Auristela ir a 

 despedirse de los liuesos de su querida Cloelia, acompauaronla todos, lloro 

 sobre la sepultura, etc." Cf. also el Viaje del Parnaso, cap, iii, vs. 145-7 : 

 ''Vimonos en un punto en el paraje | Do la nutriz de Eneas piadoso | Hizo 

 el forzoso y ultimo pasaje." 



^ Eneida, Vol. I, p. 110: "las naos . . . van ciegas do los vientos las 

 llevavan | Ni el mesmo Paliniiro determina | Si es de dia o noche o para 

 do camina; and p. 127: "Al medio Cielo se iva ya acercando | La 

 presurosa noche, quando vimos | A Palinuro apriesa en pie ponerse, | Y 

 a un lado y otio a tierra y mar bolverse. | Azia todos los vientos se bolvia, | 

 . . . Notava la estrellada compauia, etc." Persiles, p. 613, col. 1: 

 "Llego en esto la noche clara y serena, y . . . me sente en el eastillo 

 de popa, y con ojos atentos me puse a mirar el cielo." Don Quixote, I, 

 43 : "Siguiendo voy a una estrella j que desde lejos descubro, | mSs bella 

 y resi^landeciente | que cuantas vio Palinuro." 



-Persiles, p. 583, col. 1: "Puso los ojos en el cielo Mauricio, etc."; p. 585, 

 col. 2 : "miraba las estrellas, y aunque no parecian de todo en todo, algiuias 

 que por entre la eseuridad se mostiaban le daban indicio de venidera 

 serenidad, etc." 



Cf. Appendix VII, p. 534. 



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