Magias parciales de Cervantes: Garcilaso contra Avellaneda

Abstract

This paper focuses on the references to Garcilaso de la Vega in Don Quixote, particularly in the second part, dated 1615. The aim of this study is to highlight the mechanism used by Cervantes to make Garcilaso’s verses an efficient tool for the dispute that his Quixote holds with Avellaneda’s text. From this perspective, I inquire into the way Cervantes builds himself as a reader of the classic writer, and sets his own writing on that trail. Garcilaso’s work is useful to him, among other things, to raise a discussion on the survival of texts for posterity.