Cervantes y la comunicación de la historia

Abstract

This article analyzes a seldom noticed topic in Cervantism: that of Cervantes as a writer on History. It takes into account both his allusions to current historiosophs by the early seventeenth century and those books on historical epistemology he might have known during his youth near López de Hoyos. Then it undertakes an exegesis on Don Quixote’s text on the figure of the humanist, it studies López de Hoyos as author of the unnecesarilly so called «Topographic relations» and it shows how he was held in disdein by his own pupil, Cervantes. Another aspect dealt with in the article are Cervantes’ ideas on how History should be written and how he actually did it in the complex and fascinating passage of the captive’s life. Here the author intermingles the Cervantine text with unpublished evidence from the Simancas archive.