Obras Clásicas españolas y extranjeras

This 1865 compilation gathers three masterful tales from the Spanish literary canon, pairing a jewel from Boccaccio's Renaissance Decameron with works by two of Spain's greatest Golden Age writers. The collection opens with "El marido engañado," Boccaccio's sly seventh-day tale of a cuckolded husband who discovers his wife's infidelity through a comic series of misadventures. It then presents Cervantes's "La tía fingida," a provocative novella exploring love, deception, and social propriety through a scheme of pretended familial relations. Finally, Quevedo's "La casa de locos de amor" offers a biting satirical vision of lovers as inmates of a madhouse, wrestling with desire as a form of insanity. Together, these texts span centuries and genres yet share a preoccupation: the irrationality of love and the elaborate fictions we construct to either pursue or conceal it. The compilation endures because it places these voices in dialogue, revealing how Spanish literature grappled with desire, honor, and self-deception across generations. For readers seeking the roots of modern psychological fiction, this volume offers concentrated proof that the complexities of the heart were as bewildering to Cervantes as they are to us.