A Story of Twins: The Episode of Teolinda, Artidoro, Leonarda and Galercio, of La Galatea

Abstract

The structure of La Galatea, as it can be asserted for the rest of the Spanish pastoral books as well as for the longer works of prose of the Spanish Golden Age, is characterised by two different narrative levels, one primary and the other secondary: the main plot and the interspersed episodes, of which there are four: Lisandro and Leonida; Teolinda, Artidoro, Leonarda and Galercio; Timbrio, Silero, Nísida and Blanca; and Rosaura, Grisaldo and Artandro. The main objective the present study is to conduct a detailed analysis, both thematically and formally, of the second of them, while establishing their intra-textual relations with the rest of Cervantes’ literary production.