Un personaje del "Persiles" a la luz del Mecencio virgiliano: Bradamiro, el bárbaro violento

Abstract

The present paper explores in a deep sense the intertextual relation between two characters, i.d., the Cervantine Bradamiro from the romance Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda and Vergil’s Mecencius, so we have pretended to work out the reelaboration (not only the procediments, but also its aesthetic function) that Cervantes does respect such Vergilian model, which appears in Aeneid’s several books. In order to reach such goal, we have made comparisons regarding with characterization of both figures and their argumental (even narrative) development. In the other hand, we have included textual comparisons, because some of the Bradamiro’s Vergilian reminiscences have been originated from Vergil’s poetic expression, by several changes that Cervantes has introduced