11
Op. cit. (N. del A.)
12
Los docs. LXX y LXXI (pp. 190-1), XCII-XCVII (227-35), y CII (243). (N. del A.)
13
Op. cit., IV, pp. 252, 400 y 476, como ejs. (N. del A.)
14
Romera-Navarro no es siempre de fiar, ya que se equivocó al incluir la carta autografiada al Cardenal Sandoval y Rojas, con su firma cervantina falsificada. En Autógrafos... es el nº 10. Se agradece al Prof. Daniel Eisenberg esta y otras informaciones. (N. del A.)
15
El sujeto del verbo ha de ser Cervantes. (N. del A.)
16
El sujeto del verbo ha de ser Cervantes. (N. del A.)
17
Agradecemos a los Trustees de The Rosenbach Museum and Library el permiso de reproducir en nuestro trabajo la documentación cervantina que forma parte de su colección. Debemos mencionar nuestro agradecimiento más sincero a la amable bibliotecaria, Ms. Leslie A. Morris, el haber facilitado mucho las investigaciones que aquí se presentan. Gracias a una subvención de The Committee on University Scholarly Publications de la University of Colorado pudimos efectuar la reproducción fotográfica de los documentos cervantinos. (N. del A.)
18
This work is Antonio de Guevara's Reloj de príncipes (1529). It became very popular in England after being translated into English in 1557 by Thomas North. There were twelve editions published in that country in less than fifty years. Besides, it was a very influential work in that it had an impact on John Lyly's Euphues, and it also influenced Sir Thomas Elyot's The Governour. (N. from the A.)
19
In the Utopia we read: «There are a great many noblemen who live idly like drones off the labors of others, their tenants whom they bleed white by constantly raising their rents» (12). Jacob Burckhardt comments: «The feudal system which from the days of the Normans had survived in the form of a territorial supremacy of the barons, gave a distinctive colour to the political constitution of Naples, while elsewhere in Italy a direct tenure of land prevailed, and no hereditary powers were permitted by law» (The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 43). Competition grew in the powerful states and in their commercial dealings they shrank from no measures however extreme which might damage their competitors (Burckhardt 82). (N. from the A.)
20
The powerful European states held their weaker neighbors in a condition of helpless dependence; in short, they all fancied that they could get on by themselves without assistance of the rest, and thus, paved the way for the future usurpation. The usurper was forthcoming when long conflicts between different factions of the nobility had awakened the desire for a strong government, and when bands of mercenaries, ready and willing to sell their aid to the highest bidder, had superseded the general levy of the citizens. The tyrants destroyed the freedom of the cities (Burckhardt 82). These were the political conditions in Italy in Machiavelli's time. (N. from the A.)