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484 Miguel José Deyá Bauzá

resolución Barbarroja
los rehace y los restaura…
Al conjuro de mi magia
haré que se turbe el Sol
y vagas nubes preñadas
de menuda artillería,
que el viento en su seno cuaja,
dando a las morismas huestes
la munición que disparan
en el rostro mostraré,
ya que no tengo otras armas,
que por Mulay mis ardides
hacen todo lo que alcanzan (pp. 30-31) 48 .

The play does not reveal whether the Emperor’s victory was
influenced by this spell .
49
After the battle, with the Emperor in control of La Goleta, the
Spaniards are praised. The emperor grants one hundred escudos to
Pichon, who is cast as the Gracioso (the low status, comic character)
in the play which he rejects it as an insult,

Eso conmigo no se habla.
Yo he venido a ganar honra.
Un español no se paga
con dinero, voto a Christo.
Para tropas alquiladas
es eso bueno. Dinero
ni cuanto vale Alemania
puede pagarme a mi un día
de hambre, calor y galbanas (p. 33) 50 .

48 «The troops of Charles V / defeat and throw into disarray / the Turkish squads,
/ but with as much bravery / and resolution, Barbarossa/ reforms and restores them
… / With my magic spells / I shall obscure the Sun / and make vague clouds appear
pregnant / with small artillery, / and with the help of the wind, / face the Moorish
troops with the sight / of the ammunition they fire / being thrown back towards them
/ for I have no other weapons, / but to help Mulay / I will use all my cunning tricks to
achieve this goal» (pp. 30-31).
49 The involvement of magic is typical of baroque theatre, which was very popular in
the first few years of the 18th century, particularly in Cañizares’s plays, in which female
characters played the role of magicians with extraordinary powers, E. Palacios, El teatro
tardobarroco y los nuevos géneros dieciochescos, in J. Huerta Calvo (ed.), Historia cit.,
vol. II, p. 1563.
50 «I’ll have nothing of that. / I came here to earn honour. / A Spaniard cannot be
bought / with money, by God. / Money is good / to buy mercenaries / Neither money
nor all the riches / of Germany / can compensate me for a single day / of hunger, sweat
or idleness» (p. 33).

Mediterranea - ricerche storiche - Anno XVII - Agosto 2020
ISSN 1824-3010 (stampa) ISSN 1828-230X (online)