On the Origin of the Short Story of the Golden Age: The Novellieri from his paratexts

Abstract

This paper is complementary to a previous article published in Arbor, “On the origin of the short story of the Golden Age: the novellieri in Spain”. This work is an anthology, with a initial note indicating selection and publication criteria for a series of prologues, and dedications, and their censorship, in which problems translating some passages from Italian works that were difficult to assimilate in Counter-reformation Spain manifest themselves, the inquisitorial censors’ suspicions are apparent, and we can also glimpse, in the final decades of the sixteenth century, the idea of doing something new, something that could awaken the genius of Spanish writers to rise to the level of Italian novels.