Rinconete y Cortadillo

"Rinconete y Cortadillo" (or "Novela de Rinconete y Cortadillo")[1] is one of the twelve short stories included in Novelas Ejemplares, by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Rinconete y Cortadillo
by Miguel de Cervantes
1613 book cover
Original titleNovela de Rinconete y Cortadillo
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Genre(s)Picaresque short story
Published inNovelas Ejemplares
Publication date1613
Chronology
 Preceded by
El amante liberal
Followed by 
La española inglesa

The story is set in Seville in 1569, which at the time was a rich city with marked social contrasts, being the entrepôt of Spain and the new world of the Americas.[2]

References

  1. "Novela de Rinconete y Cortadillo" (in Spanish). Universidad de Alcalá. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
  2. Bel Bravo, María Antonia (1996) [1993]. "El mundo social de Rinconete y Cortadillo" [The Social World of Rinconete y Cortadillo] (PDF). In Arellano, Ignacio (ed.). Studia Aurea. Actas del III Congreso de la AISO III (pdf) (in Spanish). Vol. 3: Prosa. Toulouse-Pamplona: GRISO-LEMSO. pp. 45–53 [47]. ISBN 9788492158133. Retrieved 20 January 2013.


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