ON THE ORIGIN OF THE SHORT STORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE: THE NOVELLIERI IN SPAIN

This study presents an overview of the reception and impact in Spain of the novellieri who were translated into Castilian. The issues that have been analyzed are those which are the most interesting in bibliographical problems and questions about translations of the works of Straparola, Guicciardini, Bandello and Giraldi Cinzio, all of them appeared between 1580 and 1590. Finally, it provides a number of suggestions which we will keep in mind in order to reconstruct with sufficient guarantees the first chapter in the history of the novel in Spain, whose main axis is the dissemination of novellieri in Spain.