期刊名称：Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
印刷版ISSN：0277-6995
出版年度：2009
卷号：XXIX
期号：01
出版社：Cervantes Society of America
摘要：“El curioso impertinente” culminates in the death of
all three main characters. One traditional explanation of
this dramatic ending points to the extravagant curiosity
of Anselmo, who plots to test his wife’s fidelity by tempting her with
his best friend, Lotario. Anselmo forces Camila and Lotario to share
an artificially contrived intimacy for such a prolonged period that
they eventually end up falling in love, thus confirming Anselmo’s
deepest fears. Later, on the brink of death, Anselmo asserts that his
curiosity regarding the limits of his wife’s virtue was a “necio e im-
