The rich influence of Italy's classical and Renaissance art and philosophy on the writing of Cervantes is the subject of this fasinating analysis. The first chapter summarizes part of De
Armas's earlier study, Cervantes, Raphael and the classics, which described Cervantes' travels in Italy and his knowledge of Italian art and archaeology. In this volume, these themes are
continued and focused more narrowly on the appearance throughout Don Quixote of ideas and images drawn from Italian Renaissance art that Cervantes saw during his travels as well as the image of
the classical world he drew from his knowledge of classical and Renaissance thought. De Armas chairs the Department of Romance languages and literature at the U. of Chicago. Annotation 穢2007
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