Abstract
Even to-day—when the vogue of the romances of chivalry has long since faded—the reader of Don Quixote can delight in Cervantes' felicitous invention of the novel's fictitious author, Cide Hamete Benengeli. It is, however, legitimate to ask whether Cervantes' elaborate joke is appreciated to the full. The aim of this short paper is to investigate how Cervantes came to choose his imaginary chronicler's Arabic style and names, and to suggest that these may have a hitherto unsuspected significance.
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