Spurgeon W. Baldwin, Jr. (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: Spurgeon W. Baldwin, Jr., "The Role of the Moral in 'La Vida del Ysopet con sus Fabulas Historiadas'," in Hispania, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, December, 1964, pp. 762-65.
[In the following essay, Baldwin informs the reader that the moral in the fables of the Spanish Aesop under consideration is usually presented as a negative warning of punishment in a direct statement outside the story directed toward peasants more often than toward the aristocracy.]
The first collection of fables to appear in Spain,...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©1998 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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