Fábulas de los mejores autores

Abstract

"While the title page adds "de los mejores autores," the page before adds " Una rigurosa colección de las mas famosas fábulas" as a subtitle. The most surprising thing about this paperback book is the selection of fabulists and fables. Of the seven authors represented, Aesop hs sixteen fables, Lope to Vega two, Calderon two, Moreto one, Samaniego about 160, Iriarte twelve, Martinez one, and La Fontaine twenty-nine. This is rather a book of Samaniego with a few others thrown in! The Lope de Vega comment about the difference between writing and whistling is intriguing (17), especially because it is titled "Censurar es facil." I will try to hunt that down. Samaniego is divided into his nine books, as the closing T of C points out. The "designs" are just that, usually a presentation of a single animal not tied to a fable scene."