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re:Adams & Adams.. - 2006/01/30 11:54
Was the Lepanto Opening fashionable in Cid Hamet's time?
"The victoriously penetrating irony of 'Don Qiuxote' clearly has its origin on
seven October 1571, when as 2 young man of the same age, Cervantes &
Don John alike attained in action the high point of their lives.
Action, intention, belief, illusion--for thirty years Cervantes medityated the profounder significances of that one day, before distilling them in 'Don Quixote'
At twelve, a lonely, bookish little prince was given 'Lepanto' as a theme for a poem. He was the future King James I of England, son of Mary Queen of Scots....The little boy was kept strictly apart from his mother, and as a precaution had been eventually handed over by the
Scots nobility to the scholar George Buchanan, so as to have
Calvinism drummed into his head....But Lepanto had been a cause near to his mother's heart--she had once even expressed her willingness to marry Don John. Swept away by boyish enthusiasm, litrtle James cheerfully produced 11000 lines in ballad metre. But when in
1591 his juvenilia were published, in Edinburgh, the Kirk felt inaudibly obliged to add this apologetic note: 'it was far contrary to his degree and religion, like a mercenary poet, to pen a work in praise of a foreign Papist basstard.'".
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