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THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES


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THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES


[Illustration: _Lazarillo begging._]


THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES

His Fortunes & Adversities

Translated from the Edition of 1554
(Printed at Burgos)

by

SIR CLEMENTS MARKHAM, K.C.B.
D.SC. (CAMB.)

With a Notice of the Mendoza Family,
a Short Life of the Author, Don Diego
Hurtado De Mendoza, a Notice of
the Work, and Some Remarks on the
Character of Lazarillo de Tormes







London
Adam and Charles Black
1908




ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTORY

  THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA

                                                                PAGE
  Descent of the author of Lazarillo de Tormes                    xv
  A Mendoza saved the life of King Juan I. of Castille           xvi
  The poet Marquis of Santillana                                xvii
  Children of the Marquis                                      xviii
  Counts of Tendilla                                             xix
  Antiquity of the family                                        xxi

  DON DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA, AUTHOR OF “LAZARILLO DE TORMES”

  Born in the Alhambra                                         xxiii
  At Salamanca                                                  xxiv
  Services in Italy                                             xxiv
  Library                                                       xxiv
  The “Guerra de Granada”                                        xxv
  Last days                                                      xxv
  Death                                                          xxv

  THE BOOK, “LAZARILLO DE TORMES”

  Ticknor’s opinion                                            xxvii
  First edition                                                xxvii
  Value of copies                                             xxviii
  Spurious second parts                                       xxviii
  English translations                                          xxix

  NOTES ON THE CHARACTER OF LAZARO

  His age coincides with the Author’s                           xxxi
  Two destinies                                                xxxii
  Baneful surroundings as a child                             xxxiii
  Good stories well told                                      xxxiii
  Higher qualities                                              xxxv
  Development of character                                      xxxv
  Merits of the work                                           xxxvi


  PROLOGUE

  Lazaro’s reason for relating all the circumstances of
    his life                                                       1
  Motives _not_ to gain money but to win fame                      2
  Success of the poor should be a lesson to the rich               3


  I

  LAZARO RELATES THE WAY OF HIS BIRTH AND TELLS WHOSE SON HE IS

  Parentage of Lazaro                                              4
  Reason of his surname                                            4
  Death of father. Mother in service                               6
  Stepfather. Little brown brother                                 6
  Living on stolen goods                                           7
  Helps at the inn                                                 8


  FIRST MASTER

  HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A BLIND MAN

  Service with the blind man                                      11
  Farewell to his mother                                          11
  Cruel trick of the blind man                                    12
  Sagacity of the blind man                                       15
  The blind man’s resources and avarice                           16
  Inside of the knapsack                                          17
  Contrivance with half blancas                                   17
  Ways of getting at the wine                                     18
  Blind man’s cruel revenge                                       19
  Coolness between them                                           20
  Lazaro beaten. Blind man in the mud                             21
  Sharing a bunch of grapes                                       22
  Trouble about the sausage                                       25
  Lazaro’s revenge                                                28


  SECOND MASTER

  HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A CLERGYMAN, AND OF THE THINGS
    THAT HAPPENED TO HIM

  Out of the frying-pan into the fire                             31
  Nothing to eat in the house                                     31
  Lazaro sinking into the silent tomb                             32
  Stinginess of the clergyman                                     