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Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes:Spanish and Portuguese Folklore

Spanish and Portuguese Folklore

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9781465545442
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Library of Alexandria
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I firmly believe that the following tales have never seen the light of publicity. They are the folklore of Spain and Portugal. But, unfortunately for those who appreciate originality in a people, it was discovered that Boccaccio had been most unceremoniously plagiarized, and, what was still worse, that his defects had not been avoided. The “Decameron” has, in fact, been the foundation of the majority of the romances attributed to the natives of the Peninsula when, as has too often been the case, they have in their songs of chivalry overstepped the limits imposed by decorum. But this does not argue that the Spaniards and Portuguese have no poetry and no folklore of their own, but rather that the latter have been ignored by the compilers of such literature, in order to satisfy the cravings of the unfortunately too many admirers, even in this day, of that which would have been of advantage to the world at large had it never been imagined

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