Malta
Este artículo aporta nuevas pruebas y argumentos a la tesis de que la edición príncipe del Lazarillo se realizó en Amberes. Aceptando que la edición de Junta en Burgos en 1554 derivaría de la prínceps, este artículo sugiere la posibilidad de que Matías Gast (colaborador de Junta) conociese la prínceps en uno de sus viajes a su Amberes natal; la sátira anticatólica de la novela le interesó y se la llevó a Burgos, donde la editó; al diseñar la imagen de la cubierta Gast recurrió a un taco de Junta con la imagen del castillo Het Steen en Amberes, que Gast escogió por haber traído la obra de Amberes. Y aunque el grabado no pruebe la procedencia antuerpiense de la príncipe, constituye, no obstante, otro elemento para la tesis de Amberes.
This article puts forward evidence and an argumentation supporting the thesis that the first edition of Lazarillo de Tormes was published in Antwerp.
Accepting that the 1554 edition in Burgos by Juan de Junta press was based on the first edition, this paper suggests that in 1554 Junta’s associate Matías Gast came across a copy of Lazarillo in one of his trips to his hometown of Antwerp and was immediately interested by the book’s anti-Catholic satire; he took it with him back to Burgos and published it. When he designed the cover, he used some of the woodcuts available in Junta’s press, among which there was the one of Het Steen in Antwerp, which Gast chose because he had brought the work from Antwerp.
Although the engraving is not at all conclusive that Lazarillo was first published in Antwerp, it is a further element to be added to the Antwerp thesis.