Cervantes, frey Juan Gil and the Valencian merchants
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2016.002Keywords:
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Father Juan Gil, Algiers captives, Charter contracts, BetsAbstract
This paper brings to public knowledge various unpublished documents related to Cervantes, Father Juan Gil and several merchants that were friends of both. They are dated mainly in the years from 1580 to 1592, the time of the rescue voyages to Algiers of Father Gil and his immediate successors, and also the time of the rescue of Cervantes and his stay in Valencia after it. The documents related to the charter contracts of the rescue vessels have special interest. It is also worth mentioning the surprising intervention of Cervantes offering first-hand information about a captive in Algiers. The receivers of this information, a few unscrupulous merchants, devised one fraudulent bet that involved a few hundreds of wealthy people (like merchants and master-craftsmen) risking huge sums of money. The bet was on whether or not a fisherman from El Grao was alive. This fisherman, reportedly dead, had seemingly fallen prey to several alleged criminals that were behind bars in Valencia.
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