![]() ![]() ![]() He served under the famous Count Lemos, viceroy to Naples from 1610 to 1616 and protector of writers such as Lope de Vega, Francisco de Quevedo, and Miguel de Cervantes. Don Fernando received the honor of “Caballero del Hábito de Santiago” (Order of Knights of Santiago-patron saint of Spain) in 1628. Her parents, Doña María de Barasa and Don Fernando de Zayas y Sotomayor belonged to the middle nobility. María de Zayas y Sotomayor is thought to have been born in Madrid on September 12, 1590, at the end of the reign of Phillip II (1555-98) when Spain, once the most powerful country in the world, began its decline. Narrated by women, the ten stories deal with the suffering of females at the hands of the men in their lives, the intention being to warn them against the danger of love and marriage.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novellas ![]() A collection of novellas set in different cities of the world, mainly in the European Spanish Empire, during the first half of the seventeenth century published in Spanish (as Parte Segunda del soiree, y entretenimiento honesto) in 1647 English in 1997. ![]()
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