The Lazarillo de Tormes

Today we will talk about the life of the Lazarillo de Tormes and what happen with him after he finish his work. This is a practice about what are you doing in your project. Enjoy the power point and take notes about this important PowerPoint.

When Lazarillo was about 12 years old, he began to earn his keep as a blind

beggar’s guide.

PresentationThe Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and

of His Fortunes and Adversities

About the Book The book of the Lazarillo de

Tormes is anonymous. The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and

His Misfortunes and Adversities were published in 1553-1554.

This book was created a time ago. This book is really interesting because it talk about the life of one child who doesn’t had anybody.

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First and second treatise

He is compelled to work helping a blind man, who takes him like a son and teaches his first lessons: some of them look like folk-tales, as the way of drinking the blind's wine or steal his grapes. Lazaro gives these lessons back crashing the blind against a pillar, near Torrijos.

At the second treatise Lazaro serves a clergy man in Maqueda. Hunger makes him get a key for the chest where the clergy man keeps his pieces of bread, but the key whistles inside Lazaro's mouth while he sleeps. Mistaking the whistle for a snake, the clergy man crashes the boy and dismisses him. 

Third and Fourth Treatise

A A ruined hidalgo will be Lazaro's master in the third treatise. In order to hide his poverty the noble suffers hunger and deserts his servant.

The very short forth treatise shows Lazaro helping a Mercy Friar. We read about confusing suggestive sexual experiences.

Fifth and sixth treatise

A fifth treatise deals with a deed in the four months that Lazaro serves a false papal bull-seller. Alcala edition adds some other episode taken from Massuccio's Novellino.

  Lazaro serves a master in painting tambourines in a short sixth treatise, until he becomes water-seller, thanks to a chaplain. 

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Seventh and last treatise

 Lazaro serves a master in painting tambourines in a short sixth treatise, until he becames water-seller, thanks to a chaplain.

Seventh and last treatise introduces Lazaro's brief experience helping a bailiff. Then he begins to work as a proclaimer of an Archpriest's wines. The Archpriest lover, married to Lazaro, originates rumours that her husband denies in this book.

Important Authors Searchin the sources for the composition of

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes we should pay attention -besides the fashion of messenger letters- to classic tales following the milesian fable, like the spanish translations of Lucian of Samosata works.

Very well-known along this century was Diego de Cortegana version of Asinus aureus (1513 ó 1525) by Apuleius (125-180). The character of ruin Milon, the use of first person and the several masters for Ass Lucius, would have deserved our author's interest.

Also Saint Agustin's Confessions published in 1554