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Patrizia Campana
This verse from the Petrarchan poet Serafino Aquilano, cited in several of Cervantes's works, often illustrated one of the most widely accepted literary precepts in the Golden Age: that of variety as a source of beauty, in imitation of the variety present in nature. The technique of variatio is notably manifest in the intercalation of secondary novels in the primary plot of Part One of Don Quixote. As Cervantes himself attested, these narrationes were criticized by his contemporaries, which led him to suppress them in the Second Part of his novel; nevertheless, the author did not renounce variatio, but rather evolved in its application by introducing digressions that were more closely connected to the main plot. This evolution may have resulted not from outside criticism but from the author's own reflections on the literary genre he had inaugurated: the modern novel.
