Stanza 28 of Carajicomedia and its gloss in Hernán Núñez's Las Trezientas suggest the identity of one of the individuals satirized by it. Stanza 28 of Carajicomedia compares the voice of a character called María de Vellasco to the voice... more
Stanza 28 of Carajicomedia and its gloss in Hernán Núñez's Las Trezientas suggest the identity of one of the individuals satirized by it. Stanza 28 of Carajicomedia compares the voice of a character called María de Vellasco to the voice of another character named Santilario. The comparison is glossed with a prose fable that contains one of the few homosexual tales of the European Middle Ages. In it, a devil jumps from a rock onto the masturbating Santilario to take his soul, but slips and is impaled by the latter's prick. This paper argues that Santilario is a mask for Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, who was called a Segundo Santo Hilario, and explains why Santilario is portrayed as a rustic "vaquero".
