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I might here appropriately close this summary review of picaresque Spanish literature, were it not that there are certain phases of modern Spanish life that have found expression in works which, though barely meriting the dignity of being considered literary, deserve notice because of their showing the imperturbable pícaro in unexpected surroundings, thus demonstrating again the adaptability of this class to all conditions that may offer a chance of thriving without work. When the Spanish Republic of 1868 proclaimed the liberty of religion and of creeds, various Protestant sects set about to de-catholicize the people who, as they supposed, would welcome the modern missionary who was to free them from the bonds in which they had for centuries been confined.
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See concerning the whole movement: Ménendez y Pelayo, Heterod., vol. III, pp. 783–795.
In vol. III of his: Colección de opiísculos. Sevilla, 1877. See Menéndez y Pelayo, l. c, p. 784, and p. 786, note 1.
Menéndez y Pelayo, ibid., p. 795.
Guzman; Justina; Enriquez de Castro; Necio bien afortunado; Teresa; Garduña; Pindar o; Guaduña. These explicitly promise a continuation that did not appear. I do not mention those which were actually brought to an end by the author. Lazarillo and the Buscon should have been continued by the authors, according to indications at the end of the works.
Morel-Fatio, in his Etudes sur l’Espagne, ire série, says (Préface, p. IX): “A défaut d’un gros livre, qui paraîtra en son temps, sur la société espagnole au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle, voici d’abord, et comme pour le préparer, plusieurs dissertations”, etc. This was written in 1888. Since that time, the author has given us an article on the golilla as a typical part of the Spanish official costume (España moderna, Nov. 1894), the only published outcome of his studies in this line—a sufficient proof of the magnitude of such undertakings. But: in magnis voluisse... algo est.
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De Haan, F. (1903). Conclusion. In: An Outline of the History of the Novela Picaresca in Spain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6318-9_27
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