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Lo que sucedió a un deán de Santiago con don Illán, el mago de Toledo

By: Don Juan Manuel

Summary (continued)

  • Don Illan reminds the bishop of his promise, but he again makes up an excuse
  • Later on, the bishop is named a cardinal and is given the choice to choose his successor
  • Don Illan once again reminds him of his promise, but the cardinal once again makes up an excuse not to make his son the successor
  • Then the pope dies and the cardinal is named the successor
  • Don Illan asks the pope again to appoint his son a position
  • The pope makes another excuse and Don Illan complains that the pope has not followed through with his promise

Summary (continued)

Style

  • The pope threatens to throw Don Illan in jail as a heretic
  • Don Illan, seeing how bad he has been treated, calls to his housekeeper to cook the partridges
  • The dean, realizing he is still the dean of Santiago, finds himself still in Don Illan's home in Toledo
  • Patronio then tells the count that he should now know how to act towards the man
  • Most prominent literature was El Libro del conde Lucanor
  • It was a collection of stories written in a straightforward manner with an informal and personal prose style
  • All stories follow a model where count Lucanor presents a problem to Patronio and he responds with a story to resolve the problem
  • The stories would always have a moral and be set in Toledo
  • The dean receives a letter that his uncle, the archbishop is dead
  • He then becomes the archbishop
  • Don Illan asks the archbishop to appoint his son the dean, but the archbishop makes up an excuse nad invites him to Santiago
  • Don Illan agrees and they go
  • Later, the archbishop is then named Bishop of Tolosa

Moral

Don Juan Manuel

Who pays thy kindness with ungratefulness,

The more he has to give, he’ll give the less.

  • Born on May 5, 1282 in Toledo
  • Died in 1348
  • Grandson of Ferdinand III and nephew of Alfonso X
  • Considered the most important prose writer of the 14th century

Summary (continued)

  • Patronio tells the count the story of the dean of Santiago
  • The dean wanted to learn necromancy and the only man who knew it was the magician of Toledo named Don Illan
  • The dean went to Don Illan and asked to learn necromancy, promising to assist the magician with whatever he needed
  • Don Illan agrees to help, but first he asks his housekeeper to prepare two partidges for dinner but not to cook until he said so

Summary

  • The story begins with count Lucanor presenting Patronio with a problem
  • The count tells Patronio that a man begged him for assistance, promising that in return he would assist him as well
  • The count helped him, but whenever he asked the man, the man would have an excuse not to help
  • Patronio replies by telling the count a story
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