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## Ingram island of Barataria to further satirize a society in which blood had become a synonym for merit: Sancho asked: "Who here is my secretary?" And one of those standing by answered: "I, sir, for I can read and write, and I'm a Basque." "With the last qualification," said Sancho, "you could well be secretary to the Emperor himself. Open this envelope and see what it says" (Don Quijote, Part 2, Chapter 47). The scene exploits both the Basques' arrogant pride in their noble ancestry, untainted, so they claimed, by Muslim and Jewish blood, and their reputation for provinciality, illiteracy, and an impaired Castilian tongue. This stark contrast between image and reality was highlighted over a hundred years previous to the publication of Cervantes' novel by the Converso letrado Fernando de Pulgar, in a letter to his friend and patron Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza, the archbishop of Seville. The occasion was the 1482 Guipuzcoan ordinance banning Conversos from Basque territory. "Isn't it risible," wrote Pulgar, "that all of them, or most, send their sons down here to serve us [Converso letrados] ... yet do not care to be the in-laws of those they wish to serve ..."2 Pulgar was

Author

Carlos Gilly

Publisher

Koninklijke Brill N.V.

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004175532