31
Ferdinand and Isabella, pp. 303-04.
32
Imperial Spain, p. 115.
33
Marc Shell, The Economy of Literature (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).
34
Webster's gives the following etymology for «mint». It is highly suggestive in terms of the interrelationships in La gitanilla among poetry, the female, coinage, and the sacred: «... fr. Moneta, epithet of Juno, ancient Italian goddess, wife of Jupiter; fr. the fact that the Romans coined money in the temple of Juno Moneta». It is also useful to recall here that «Juno, the sister and wife of Jupiter, was the special protector of women... every woman had her juno, pro presided over all aspects of her womanly life -especially marriage and childbirth. She was the guardian of the bride's girdle, the protector of the newly married woman as she entered her new home, presided over the ritual of marriage, helped women in childbirth, and enabled the newly born child to see. Women who were sterile [sic] prayed to her for fertility...» Larousse World Mythology (London: Hamlyn, 1972), p. 178.
35
Lazarillo de Tormes, ed. Francisco Rico (Barcelona: Planeta, 1976), p. 55.
36
Guzmán I, 148.
37
James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (New York: Macmillan, 1963), p. 132.
38
Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (New York: Arno Press, 1969), pp. 531-32.
39
Golden Bough, p. 157.
40
Ibíd., p. 159.