Bernardo (lost work of Cervantes)

Bernardo is a lost work of Miguel de Cervantes, mentioned by this one in April of 1616, in his dedication to the Count of Lemos of the works of Persiles and Sigismunda, calling it "the famous Bernardo". Here, "famous" does not mean that he was already famous, but was worthy of fame.

According to this dedication, it did not remain in the soul of Cervantes but "certain relics and we come"; that is, it was almost finished.

Hispanist Daniel Eisenberg, in a speech to the International Association of Hispanists in 1983, proposed that it could only be an allusion to the medieval Castilian hero Bernardo del Carpio. Since Cervantes believed that Spain needed better books of chivalry, with national heroes instead of foreigners, and that one had begun, as its spokesman, the Canon of Toledo, communicates to us, it is logical that this lost work was its contribution to the genre. / p>

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