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A 3 page essay on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's "Doctor Glass-Case." The writer argues that this sixteenth century protagonist can be viewed as the quintessential Renaissance man. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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publication of his masterpiece Don Quixote in the early 1600s ("Miguel"). In Cervantes short story "The licentiate vidriera; or, Doctor Glass-Case," he envisions his protagonist Tomas Rodaja as a man
who is very similar to himself. As with Cervantes, Rodaja undergoes several transformations throughout his lifetime, assuming roles and experiencing new cities and cultures. In so doing, Rodaja, like Cervantes,
can be viewed as a Renaissance man, mirroring the humanistic ideas and attitudes that characterized Miguel de Cervantes. At the beginning of the story, Rodaja, at the age of
eleven abandons the dress and role of a laborer to assume the black clothing suitable to his new role as valet to two students. Rodajas various transformations to new roles,
new persona is symbolically represented by his clothing during each period. These changes in Rodajas life are roughly parallel to those that occurred in the life of the author.
When Cervantes was 22 in 1569, he served as chamberlain to monsignor Giulio de Acquaviva, shortly before he was made a cardinal and is believed to have held this position,
living in Rome, for roughly six years (Cervantes 325). Similarly, Rodaja is described as visiting Rome during his travels. Cervantes "rather formulaic"
descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cervantes 326). However, unlike Cervantes, Rodajas stay in Rome is perfunctory, as the author describes
how Rodaja acknowledges the usual attractions of the city, the "college of Cardinals, the majesty of the Supreme Pontiff," but having walked "the station of the seven churches and confessed
his sins, after kissing "His Holinesss foot" and procuring provisions, he heads towards Naples" (De Cervantes Saavedra). Scholars have commented on the "subtle irony" of this passage and also remarked
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