Before reading the Quarenta cantos by Alonso de Fuentes: covers, dedicatory epistles and licenses in 16th century editions
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https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2020.34.0.78049Keywords:
Spanish ballads, 16th century, Alonso de Fuentes, Editions, PeritextAbstract
The Quarenta cantos of Alonso de Fuentes were printed at least four times between 1550 and 1587, and up to five if we include an edition of 1557, from which no specimen could be found. Without any relevant detail in the title, it participates in an original way to the editorial phenomenon that allowed the affirmation of the romanceril genre. The study of the peritext and the dedicatory epistle shows that the forty-five preserved copies are not derived from a single model and that they do not connect with the romance’s editorial canon, which was born with the Cancionero de romances of 1546. None of the covers shows a particular care or a unique concrete design: rather they show some development and recycling of previous materials. However, the study of the peritext confirms the renewed interest, throughout the second half of the 16th century, for a work whose characteristics point at the same time to the tradition of commentary, the fashion of the romance, and the originality of a gloss in prose of romances, manifesting the entrance of the Romancero in a circle of learned people.
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