1
A paper read at the Annual General Meeting of the Cervantes Society of America held in Toronto on December 29, 1993 (One slight addition has been made). (N. from the A.)
2
«En mi concepto, el poema de la
Galatea
fue comenzado por Cervantes en España, tal vez aumentado y limado durante el cautiverio y completado a su vuelta»
(111).
(N. from the A.)
3
«no parecería aventurado suponer que lo [i.e., este libro] trajo [del cautiverio] ya escrito, al regresar á la corte»
(113).
(N. from the A.)
4
The great
cervantista
modified his view somewhat over the years.
In 1903 (Barahona de Soto
119, note) he argued that both
La Galatea
and Gálvez de Montalvo's
Pastor de Fílida
were written
«muy al comenzar el último tercio del siglo XVI, si bien a última hora... sus autores les añadieron algunas cosas tales como el
Canto de Caliope»
.
In 1925 (in his edition of
«Rinconete y Cortadillo»
125) he states that the first draft was written
«antes del año 1575»
. (N. from the A.)
5
For example, discussing Cervantes's captivity, he remarks (Vida, III, 29) that
«mucha parte de los versos y prosas de
La Galatea
debió de elaborarse entonces»
.
See also III, 35 and 174.
(N. from the A.)
6
«no es inverosímil suponer que la novela fue redactada después que Cervantes volvió a Madrid (en diciembre de 1580) de su cautiverio en Argel»
(edition of
La Galatea, I, viii).
Narciso Alonso Cortés (Casos
93) is one of those accepting the editors' statement without question.
(N. from the A.)
7
«Una carta desconocida e inédita de Cervantes»
.
(N. from the A.)
8
Alborg (Cervantes
68, n. 1), for example, states that the letter
«debe resolver al fin la debatida cuestión»
.
Cinti, in her edition of
La Galatea, contradicts herself: after stating
(10) that parts of the novel were written by Cervantes in his twenties, she concludes
(23) that, after Amezúa's article, the dating question seems to be resolved.
(N. from the A.)
9
Buchanan,
«The Works of Cervantes and Their Dates of Composition»
(25) concludes that
«Cervantes seems to have composed his works intermittently and concurrently rather than within a specified period of time»
.
(N. from the A.)
10
See the Schevill and Bonilla edition of his Poesías sueltas, 5-36. (N. from the A.)