Spanish Erasto

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The Spanish translation of the Erasto narrative, titled Historia Lastimera d'el Príncipe Erasto (The Lamentable History of Prince Erasto) was printed in Antwerp in 1573. The name of the author, Pedro Hurtado de la Vera, was a pseudonym for the writer Pedro Faria, possibly from Plascencia in Spain, who lived in Flanders in the early 1570s. Hurtado de la Vera's adaptation of the Italian Erasto mostly closely reproduces the content of the narrative, though he tends toward abbreviation (Farrell and Andrachuk, 1996). However, in their introduction to their edition of the text, Farrell and Andrachuk note that Hurtado de la Vera's Erasto demonstrates a significant omission: the episode in which the stars foretell the prince's fate and prompt his vow of silence is absent. As such, the prince's refusal to speak upon his arrival at the court makes little sense; this may have contributed to the texts relative lack of popularity, Farrell and Andrachuk suggest.

However, despite the fact that the Spanish Erasto was not widely circulated (compared with the 16th-century French and Italian transmissions), it was nevertheless cited as the source for the 1709 French translation composed by the Chevalier de Mailly.

A note on the printers of Pedro Hurtado de la Vera's text: most catalogue references include the full printer information from the title page, claiming that it was printed "En casa de la Biuda y herederos de Iuan Stelsio" (in the house of the widow and heirs of Johannes Steelsius). The widow and heir of Johannes Steelsius, a woman named Anna van Ertborn, inherited her husband's business after his death. On the final page of at least some copies of the text, however, another printer is named: Daniel Vervliet, who ran another printer's shop in Antwerp. Daniel Vervliet is therefore sometimes listed as a 'collaborator' in catalogue references to this text.

General Information
Language within Version
Narrative / Scholarly Group
Parent Versions	Erasto (Es)
Child Versions
Author	Pedro Hurtado de la Vera
Title	Historia Lastimera del Principe Erasto
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Branch of the tradition	Seven Sages of Rome

Language & Composition
Language of version	Spanish
Translated into (languages)	French
Place of composition	Antwerp, Belgium
Date of composition	1573
Source for date of composition

Literature & Editions
Modern research literature	González Palencia (1946), Farrell and Andrachuk (1996)
Modern Editions	Pedro Hurtado de la Vera, Historia Lastimera d'el Príncipe Erasto, ed. by Farrell and Andrachuk (1996)

Recorded branch of this secondary version
I (Versio Italico) Erasto (Es) English Erasto Erastus, or, The Roman Prince Francis Kirkman, Prince Erastus French Erasto Italian Erasto Mario Teluccini, Erasto in verse Spanish Erasto Il Libro dei Sette Savi de Roma (C) L'Amabile di Continentia (Em) Storia d'una Crudele Matrigna (M) Storia di Stefano (R) Versio Italica historiae septem sapientum (L)

Connected prints
Print Language Location Date of Print Historia lastimera, d'el Principe Erasto, hijo del Emperador Diocletiano. [...] Antwerp: Widow and heir of Juan Stelsio, 1573 Spanish 1573 JL

Adaptations
Adapted from (version)	Italian Erasto
Adapted into (version)	Chevalier de Mailly, French Erasto
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Languages in Use
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Notes
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Notes on motifs

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

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