LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Stephen Baghot de la Bere
| PAGE | |
| Lazarillo begging | [Frontispiece] |
| Lazarillo helps at the Inn | [9] |
| “He answered that he received me, not as his servant but as his son” | [13] |
| Tailpiece | [29] |
| “‘It is the rats,’ he declared” | [39] |
| Tailpiece | [46] |
| “I followed him over a great part of the city” | [49] |
| “What there was we spread out” | [57] |
| “Gave me a piece of a cow’s foot and several pieces of boiled tripe” | [63] |
| “They returned in the afternoon” | [79] |
| “The news soon spread to the neighbouring villages” | [93] |
| Tailpiece | [96] |
| “But evil tongues are never wanting” | [101] |
| Sketch Map of Route [at end of Volume]. | |
INTRODUCTORY
THE FAMILY OF MENDOZA
Descent of the
author of Lazarillo
de Tormes.
The author of Lazarillo de Tormes was a scion of one of the noblest families of Spain, and some account of it should precede a notice of the author’s life.[1]
Don Diego Lopez, Lord of Mendoza, in 1170 married Doña Eleanor Hurtado, heiress of Mendibil. She was the daughter of Fernan Perez de Lara called Hurtado, son of Pedro Gonzalez de Lara and of the Queen Urraca of Castille and Leon.
Don Lopez and Eleanor Hurtado had four sons: Inigo, Lord of Mendoza; Diego, Lord of Mendibil; Pedro Diaz, who was ancestor of the Mendozas of Seville; and Fernando, who founded the line in Portugal.