Cide Hamete y la estirpe de Turpín

Cide Hamete has traditionally been considered as one of the key elements of Cervantes’ parody of the books of chivalry. The topic of the manuscript found and that of the chivalrous pseudo-author are undoubtedly at the origin of this figure; or at least in that of Cide Hamete in Quijote’s part I, because as regards the 1615 edition it seems more appropriate to relate it with the Turpin of Boiardo and Ariosto. This article carries out a comparative analysis of the functions of the three fictitious authors in order to clarify the possible Italian ancestry of the Cervantine moor.