期刊名称：Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN：0277-6995
出版年度：2002
卷号：XXII
期号：02
页码：9-24
出版社：Cervantes Society of America
摘要：The Libros plúmbeos were false documents, purported lost Biblical scripture dictated by the Virgin Mary to St. James, who took them to Spain in the first century. The purpose of the “Leaden Books” was to show that the first Christians in Spain were Arabs, with the hope of preventing the impending expulsion of the Moriscos, which nevertheless occurred in 1609. While they were obvious fakes to most, many people, especially in Granada, wanted to believe in their authenticity. Through the creation of Cide Hamete Benengeli, the author of the “verdadera historia”of Don Quijote in a found manuscript, written in Arabic characters, Cervantes parodies the events surrounding the “Leaden Books” in the creation of his immortal work.
