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A Body of Glass: The Case of El licenciado Vidriera

A Body of Glass: The Case of El licenciado Vidriera interventions It is sometime around the year 1560; the location is most probably the Spanish region around Valladolid. An illustrious though unnamed man believes he has become a glass vase and consequently avoids any contact with other humans for fear of breaking. To heal him, he is locked by his doctor into a room all covered with straw, and the room is then set to fire. The man cries for help, banging desperately on the door. His guardians, outside, respond to his cries by asking him why, if he really is made of glass, wouldn't he break with all that banging. To these inquiries he replies with the following words: "Open, I am begging you, my friends and dearest servants, because I don't think I am a glass vase but just the most miserable of all men; especially if you will let this fire put an end to my life."1 This striking short case is recorded in a book written around 1569 by a Spanish doctor, Alonso Ponce de Santa Cruz, and published only decades later by his son Antonio, a doctor himself, in 1622.2 When Miguel de Cervantes, in the first years of 1600, was writing his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png symploke University of Nebraska Press

A Body of Glass: The Case of El licenciado Vidriera

symploke , Volume 23 (1) – Dec 31, 2015

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interventions It is sometime around the year 1560; the location is most probably the Spanish region around Valladolid. An illustrious though unnamed man believes he has become a glass vase and consequently avoids any contact with other humans for fear of breaking. To heal him, he is locked by his doctor into a room all covered with straw, and the room is then set to fire. The man cries for help, banging desperately on the door. His guardians, outside, respond to his cries by asking him why, if he really is made of glass, wouldn't he break with all that banging. To these inquiries he replies with the following words: "Open, I am begging you, my friends and dearest servants, because I don't think I am a glass vase but just the most miserable of all men; especially if you will let this fire put an end to my life."1 This striking short case is recorded in a book written around 1569 by a Spanish doctor, Alonso Ponce de Santa Cruz, and published only decades later by his son Antonio, a doctor himself, in 1622.2 When Miguel de Cervantes, in the first years of 1600, was writing his

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