With Los alivios de Casandra, Castillo Solórzano undertook a path to ennoble his own narratives. This proceeded hand in hand with the intensification of Italian elements. The garden of the Milanese villa used as frame for the story, as well as the subsequent locations in Naples and Turin, are the first steps to forge a world of idealized perfections. However, in the eyes of the author, Spanish civilization had come to perfect and even go beyond the model of refined Italian courts. This can also be noticed in the literary field, where Spanish authors have overtaken narratori. In this sense, Solórzano adapts a short novel by Bandello enriching it with greater formal refinement and an evident moralizing reading.
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