The library of Don Quixote
Don Quixote in his library, Gustave Doré, 1863.
The library of Don Quixote is the central theme of Chapter VI of the first part of Don Quixote, where Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, for the mouth of the parish curate Pero Pérez, exposes opinions on some Epic poetry and other works of literature of his time including some Chivalric romance and pastoral poems.
In Chapter VI are cited the following works:
- Amadigi di Gaula
- Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventure of Esplandián) by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo
- Amadis of Greece by Feliciano de Silva
- Don Olivante de Laura by Antonio de Torquemada
- Felixmarte de Hircania by Melchor Ortega
- Platir, attributed to Francisco de Enciso Zárate
- El Caballero de la Cruz (Lepolemo by Alonso de Salazar, or Leandro el Bel by Pietro Lauro)
- Espejo de caballerías (The Cavalry's mirror), by Pero López de Reinosa or di Santa Caterina
- Historia de las hazañas y hechos del invencible caballero Bernardo del Carpio by Agustín Alonso
- El verdadero suceso de la famosa batalla de Roncesvalles con la muerte de los doce Pares de Francia by Francisco Garrido Villena
- Palmerín de Oliva by Francisco Vázquez
- Palmerín de Inglaterra by Francisco de Moraes
- Belianis by Jerónimo Fernández
- Tirant lo Blanch by Joanot Martorell
- Diana by Jorge de Montemayor
- Segunda parte de la Diana de Jorge de Montemayor, by Alonso Pérez
- Diana enamorada, by Gaspar Gil Polo
- Los diez libros de Fortuna de Amor, by Antonio Lo Frasso
- El pastor de Iberia, by Bernardo de la Vega
- Primera parte de las ninfas y pastores de Henares, by Bernardo González de Bobadilla
- Desengaño de celos, by Bartolomé López de Enciso
- El pastor de Fílida, by Luis Gálvez de Montalvo
- Tesoro de varias poesías, by Pedro de Padilla
- El Cancionero, by Gabriel López Maldonado
- La Galatea by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla
- La Austríada by Juan Rufo
- El Monserrate by Cristóbal de Virués
- Las lágrimas de Angélica, by Luis Barahona de Soto
In Chapter VII are mentioned these other works:
- La Carolea, by Jerónimo Sempere
- León de España, by Pedro de la Vecilla Castellanos
- Comentario de la guerra di Alemania hecha por Carlos V, máximo emperador romano, rey de España by Luis de Ávila
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