The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes / His Fortunes & Adversities; with a Notice of the Mendoza Family, a Short Life of the Author, Don Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, a Notice of the Work, and Some Remarks on the Character of Lazarillo de Tormes

ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY
THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA
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Descent of the author of Lazarillo de Tormes	xv
A Mendoza saved the life of King Juan I. of Castille	xvi
The poet Marquis of Santillana	xvii
Children of the Marquis	xviii
Counts of Tendilla	xix
Antiquity of the family	xxi
DON DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA, AUTHOR OF “LAZARILLO DE TORMES”
Born in the Alhambra	xxiii
At Salamanca	xxiv
Services in Italy	xxiv
Library	xxiv
The “Guerra de Granada”	xxv
Last days	xxv
Death	xxv
THE BOOK, “LAZARILLO DE TORMES”
Ticknor’s opinion	xxvii
First edition	xxvii
Value of copies	xxviii
Spurious second parts	xxviii
English translations	xxix
NOTES ON THE CHARACTER OF LAZARO
His age coincides with the Author’s	xxxi
Two destinies	xxxii
Baneful surroundings as a child	xxxiii
Good stories well told	xxxiii
Higher qualities	xxxv
Development of character	xxxv
Merits of the work	xxxvi
PROLOGUE
Lazaro’s reason for relating all the circumstances of his life	1
Motives not to gain money but to win fame	2
Success of the poor should be a lesson to the rich	3
I
LAZARO RELATES THE WAY OF HIS BIRTH AND TELLS WHOSE SON HE IS
Parentage of Lazaro	4
Reason of his surname	4
Death of father. Mother in service	6
Stepfather. Little brown brother	6
Living on stolen goods	7
Helps at the inn	8
FIRST MASTER
HOW LAZARO TOOK SERVICE WITH A BLIND MAN
Service with the blind man	11
Farewell to his mother	11
Cruel trick of the blind man	12
Sagacity of the blind man	15
The blind man’s resources and avarice	16
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