Prestiti cervantini nel Barone di Nicastro di Ippolito Nievo

Miguel de Cervantes is without doubt one of the most relevant authors for Ippolito Nievo’s imagination. His literary production shows a pervasive use of humor as a hermeneutic tool to understand reality. In Il Barone di Nicastro, a short satirical novel published in 1857, Nievo makes use, often verbatim, of various Quixotian motifs, and by fashioning a plot that closely resembles that of Cervantes’ masterpiece, he produces a new interpretation of it.