Along with her Cervantine inspiration, “Lepanto’s other Hand” has it all: Maria de Dancer travels throughout Christian and Moorish Granada, is taken captive in Algiers, travels to Naples, falls in love with a Spanish captain, participates in the Holy League, strikes up a friendship with the author of “Don Quixote”, who sick witharia is delirious on the galley ‘The Marchioness ’. A restatement in a...
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