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A careful reading of Don Quixote shows that this masterly novel is not composed of words alone. As all literary masterpieces, the Cervantine work is full with silence. The narrator (who cannot be identified with Cervantes, as we have established before) keeps silent and skips over certain details, or gives partial accounts of them. This paper discusses some Cervantine omissions, and evidences by means of three passages from the first part of the novel that such silences are not overlooks or inconsistences, as some have suggested. Instead, Cervantes’ silence shows the great writing skill of the author.

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This essay examines in a succinct manner the relationship between the work of Miguel de Cervantes, especially the Quixote, and the verses of Garcilaso de la Vega in the context of the main values consecrated in the literary canon of the Spanish Golden Age. For that purpose, first we offer a brief biographical and intellectual note aiming to establish some similarities between both authors, and then we record different “signals” or quotations in the pages of both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and comment on them both from a historical and a critical viewpoint. This work tries to contribute on new ways of analyzing the literary tradition, paying the utmost attention to Cervantes’ ideas regarding poetry.

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In many of his literary works Cervantes exhibits a desire for Italy, which can be encountered in his dedications and his many references to the art, literature and culture of the peninsula. Cervantes recalls in particular his lengthy stay in Naples, capital of the most important Spanish viceroyalties of the time. This essay studies Cervantes’ desire for Italy through the lenses of the Novelas ejemplares. Here, this impetus seems somewhat ambiguous in that the dedicatory to the Count of Lemos is far from laudatory and the references to the viceroyalty in the Novelas ejemplares themselves are brief and almost sinister. Instead of affirming the desire for Italy, these allusions to Naples create an almost insoluble mystery.

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