William C. Atkinson, «The Enigma of the Persiles», Bulletin of Spanish Studies 24 (1947), 248. (N. from the A.)

Alberto Navarro González, Cervantes entre el «Persiles» y el «Quijote» (Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, 1981), 56. (N. from the A.)

Rafael Osuna, «El olvido del Persiles», Boletín de la Real Academia Española 48 (1968), 61. (N. from the A.)

Atkinson,«The Enigma of the Persiles», 248. (N. from the A.)

Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, «Cultura literaria de Miguel de Cervantes y elaboración del ‘Quijote’», Discursos, ed. J. M. Cossío (Madrid, 1956); cited by Emilio Carilla in the introduction to his edition of the Persiles (Madrid: Biblioteca Anaya, 1971), 14. (N. from the A.)

Osuna, «El olvido del Persiles», 67. (N. from the A.)

This passage is cited and translated by Kevin Brownlee in his fine study of «Jean de Meun and the Limits of Romance: Genius as Rewriter of Guillaume de Lorris», in Romance: Generic Transformations from Chrétien de Troyes to Cervantes, eds. Kevin and Marina Brownlee (Hanover, N. H.: UP of New England, 1985), 129. (N. from the A.)

Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier, trans. George Bull (New York: Penguin Books, 1967), 109 and 220. (N. from the A.)

Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 2-4. As the source of his own speculations on polarities, Maclean cites G. E. R. Lloyd's Polarity and analogy: two types of argumentation in early Greek thought (Cambridge, 1971). (N. from the A.)

Juan Luis Vives, Adversus Pseudodialecticos in Juan Luis Vives: Obras completas, trans. and ed. Lorenzo Riber (Madrid, 1948), 2:310. Binaries were to receive devious illustration in the work of those Renaissance humanists who detested Aristotle but valued Lucian's irony, e. g., Erasmus and More. (N. from the A.)