TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and added to the publicdomain.
The Table of Contents was added by the Transcriber. The numberingof the chapters in the table of contents follows the sequence observedin the original images of the book, which is not successive. In theoriginal book not all the chapters that made up the original work inSpanish had been included. The Translator mentions having taken some"liberties" (sic) (see PREFACE).
For instance, in Book 3 and Book 4 of this edition a note by theTranslator is included at the end of Chapter V of Book 3 mentioningthat "there are here three chapters omitted, Chap. 6, 7, and 8, inorder to shorten the Story a little, and not possessing much interestor merit."
Note 9 is listed at the end, but is missing in the maintext, however not clear if a consequence of the cuts made by theTranslator, as footnotes and the Notes listed at the end belong to theTranslator.
The spelling of Spanish names and places in Spain mentioned in the texthas been adjusted to the rules set by the Academia Real Española.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenatedvariants. For the words with both variants present the one more usedhas been kept.
Punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
A Castilian of refined manners, a gentleman, true to religionand true to honour, a scholar and a soldier, fought under thebanners of Don John of Austria, at Lepanto; lost his arm, andwas captured; endured slavery not only with fortitude, butwith mirth; and, by the superiority of nature, mastered andoverawed his Barbarian owner; finally ransomed, he resumedhis native destiny—the awful task of achieving Fame.
The world was a drama to him; his own thoughts, in spiteof poverty and sickness, perpetuated for him the feelings ofyouth; he painted only what he knew and had looked into, buthe knew and had looked into much indeed; and his imaginationwas ever at hand to adapt and modify the world of hisexperience; of delicious love, he fabled, yet with stainless virtue.
CERVANTES: A Lecture, by Coleridge, in 1818.
THE WANDERINGS OF PERSILES AND SIGISMUNDA;
A NORTHERN STORY.
BY
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA.
LONDON:
JOSEPH CUNDALL, 168, NEW BOND STREET.
1854.
TO
THE HON. EDWARD LYULPH STANLEY,
IN MEMORY OF THOSE DAYS
WHEN HE AND HIS BROTHER
FIRST MADE ACQUAINTANCE WITH
THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES AND TROUBLES OF
THE BEAUTIFUL PILGRIMS,
THIS WORK
IS INSCRIBED BY
THE TRANSLATOR.
PREFACE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
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