A pré-história arturiana no Libro de las Buenas Andanças e Fortunas de Lope García de Salazar: estratégias de legitimação

Abstract

Lope García de Salazar begins Book XI of his Libro de las Buenas Andanças e Fortunas, which he dedicates to the history of Britain, with a well-known foundational narrative: the story of Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, who leaves Italy to repopulate Troy but is carried by contrary winds to the island of Albion, where he founds a new kingdom and begins a lineage. Although he may have known other sources for this narrative, in this section of his work Salazar chooses to follow quite faithfully Leomarte's Sumas de Historia Troyana. Thus, his rewriting strategies are revealed in the small deviations from this matrix -small deviations aimed at legitimising King Arthur's most remarkable ancestor.