Contaminazioni dardaniche in Castiglia

Contaminazioni dardaniche in Castiglia
The paper examines, in the light of most recent contributions, some contamination processes connected with the diffusion of Trojan histories in Castile, both in texts elaboration and in manuscript production, from the thirteenth until the beginning of the sixteenth century. It’s possible to outline a trend, particularly in court circles, to integrate and combine the material offered by the models from abroad (Benoît de Sainte-Maure and Guido delle Colonne above all) with some elements of Iberian origin, which were transmitted from the Libro de Alexandre to the Crónica Troyana printed in 1490. This process, which has its fulcrum in the classical section of Alfonso X General Estoria, confirms the primacy of Iliadic material as an emblem of antiquity to be transmitted to new generations, but also the constant desire to aggregate around it other myths, many of which are marked by contrasted relationships between parents and children.