Abstract

This paper offers a reading of the Morisco character Ricote (Quijote, II, 54) from the perspective of the experience of emigration and exile of a Spaniard outside of Spain. The paper offers also a reflection on the related issues of Ricote’s identity as a «Spaniard», as well as that of the spaces created by Cervantes within the novel to present, with a certain degree of freedom, both a moving portrait of the character, and a defense of his expulsion from Spain.

Abstract

Academias morales de las musas (1642) by Antonio Enríquez Gómez is one of those miscellaneous works that make use of academia’s narrative artifice in order to compile poems, plays and other loose works. They are articulated upon the concurrence of several interlocutors who expound their ideas and feelings through compositions with different degrees of elaboration. In those verses, Antonio Enríquez Gómez pours his concerns about a life shaken by the persecution he suffered at the hands of the Inquisition because of his crypto-Judaism. Although he covers diverse themes, he is mainly concerned with providing moral reflections, and with the pessimist recreation of neo-stoic topics.