The present article analyzes the octaves that Garrido de Villena added to Boiardo's poem with the aim to insert in the Spanish version of the work a series of characters belonging to Valencian elites. It is an exercise in manipulation, adaptation, and anachronic contextualization, as much as it is a creative design that runs parallel to a translation effort while being integrated in it and intended to pose a societal model to his contemporary Spanish readers
