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Ellen D. Lokos
This study offers a new reading of the Viaje del Parnaso based on a vigorous labor of reconstruction of its emblematic images. The focal point of our analysis is the episode featuring the appearance of Lope de Vega, which constitutes the central emblematic image of the poem. Emblem literature, familiar to any learned reader of 1614, provided a powerful tool which allowed Cervantes to create levels of meaning using a language of innuendo and relativity. After ¿decoding¿ the emblematic language of the Viaje, we are able to understand more fully the literary and social satire that lie beneath the surface of the text. What emerges is one of the finest examples of Cervantine wit, where every word and image is ripe with veiled meanings.
