8/18/2019 Persiles y Segismunda

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Los Trabajos De Persiles Y

Sigismunda

Cervantes fnished the romance

o The Labors o Persiles and

Sigismunda shortly beore his

death. The idea o this romance

was not new and Cervantes

appears to imitate Heliodorus.

[!" The wor# is a romanticdescription o travels$ both by

sea and land. %eal and abulous

geography and history are mi&ed

together' and in the second halo the romance the scene is

transerred to Spain and (taly.