Diablo predicador, y mayor contrario amigo
Holding Institution
University of PennsylvaniaCall Number
PQ6416 P6 1680zAuthor
Title Page
Comedia famosa, El diablo predicador /del Doctor Don Francisco de Malaspina.
Caption Title
Comedia famosaImprint
[Spain : s. n., 16--?]Language(s) of text
SpanishPhysical Description
[34] p. ; 21 cm (4to)Signatures
Signatures: A-D⁴ E1General Notes
Urzáiz Tortajada attributes play to Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez.There are several plays with this title: by Lope ("De entre lóbregas cavernas...", BNE, Mss/15084)
by Francisco de Malaspina (Ha de ese centro oscuro!ʺ, Escogidas 14 (Madrid: Domingo García Morrás, 1661), in which it appears under its alternative title La fuerza de la verdad
and by un ingenio de esta corteʺ (ÆHa del oscuro reino del espanto!ʺ). The ingenio is usually reckoned to be Luis de Belmonte Bermúdez, and this is the commonest surviving version
there seem to be no early prints of the Lope play. Medel (1735) records both La fuerza de la verdad (p. 46) and El diablo predicador as by Malaspina (p. 32), and El diablo predicador as by Luis de Belmonte (p. 32). (Email communication from D. W. Cruickshank.)
Citation Reference
Urzáiz Tortajada, H. Catálogo de autores teatrales del siglo XVII, p. 160, 161, 416, 417, 663, 721.Local Notes
Bound with several other items in a volume with the call number PQ6416 P6 1680Z.Stains on first and last page.