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As the title would indicate, this book157 is the account which a soul gives us of its various transmigrations—an artifice of literary treatment which the author of El Crotalón had already adopted before this. The greater part of the work is written in easy verse, each embodiment constituting a separate satire upon various classes of society, especially the higher orders. The story, however, of the soul’s existence in the body of Gregorio Guadaña is in prose, and forms the section that more immediately concerns us.
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The best study of Enriquez Gomez is found in Estudios históricos, políticos y literarios sobre los Judíos de España, por D. José Amador de los Rios, Madrid, 1848, pp. 569–607; and shorter in Menéndez y Pelayo, Heterod., vol. II, pp. 611–616. His dramatic works are fully discussed by Barrera, pp. 134–142. El siglo Pitagórico passed through the following editions: 1. 1644, Rouen, Maury. (Ticknor, II, p. 223, note 1.) 2. 1647, Rouen, Maury. (Menéndez y Pelayo, Heterod., II, p. 614, note 1). 3. 1682, Rouen, Maury. (Salvá, no. 1789. He observes that there are two different editions in the same year and by the same publisher). 4. 1727, Brussels, Foppens. (Savá, no. 1789. Men. y Pel., Heterod., l. c). The Guadaña was reprinted separately in Riv., 33, pp. 257–283.
For instance, the first chapter is one continuous witticism on his parents and relations, all connected with the medical profession. It occupies no less than six columns.
“mas vale errar por piadoso que acertar por riguroso” (Riv., 33, p. 279, b).
Puigblanch (Opúsculos gramâtico-satíricos, London, s. a. [1833], vol. II, p. 372) was the first to note Lesage’s indebtedness to the Siglo Pitagórico, See also: Navarrete, Bosquejo, p. LXXXVIII, note 1; and Menéndez y Pelayo, Heterod., II, p. 614–615.
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De Haan, F. (1903). The Siglo Pitagórico, by Enriquez Gomez. In: An Outline of the History of the Novela Picaresca in Spain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6318-9_20
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